You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIf he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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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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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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