When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEAt the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Hope costs nothing.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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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 pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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