I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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