Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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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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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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