I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEJanuary, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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 am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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