You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWe only do well the things we like doing.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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Hope costs nothing.
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