If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEMy true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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 kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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