It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI have found my voice again and the art of using it.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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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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