The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEHope costs nothing.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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