To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou do not notice changes in what is always before you.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using 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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Hope costs nothing.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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