The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTETime spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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 want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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