You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIf he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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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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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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