That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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There are no ordinary cats.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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