You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWhen she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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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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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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