If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou do not notice changes in what is always before you.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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