At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTETime spent with a cat is never wasted.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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