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.
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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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