January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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 want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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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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