The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI have found my voice again and the art of using it.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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