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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTETime spent with a cat is never wasted.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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