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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIf he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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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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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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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 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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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