My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEHope costs nothing.
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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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 believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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