To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTETime spent with a cat is never wasted.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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Hope costs nothing.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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