No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI have found my voice again and the art of using it.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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