Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWe only do well the things we like doing.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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