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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Character Honorable Kind Sound Time
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Desperate Flower Image Lose Memories Ourselves
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Himself Time Traveling True
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Absence Shape Thinking Time True
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Astonishment Finding Growth Quick Yourself
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Allow Excitement Finding Human Place Religion Tree
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Gratitude Kindness Prodigy Understand
There are no ordinary cats.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Absence Humor Impossible Life
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Attachment Casually Myself Mystery People Search
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Brain Problem Yourself
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Fingers Touch Yourself
Writing only leads to more writing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

One Liner Poet Writing
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Day Distance Finding Myself Separate
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Age Kind Old Pain Respect Serious Suffering Woman Worth
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Joy Love Myself Voice
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Give Up Herself Intelligence Man Right Thinking Woman
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Art Finding Myself Voice
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Bad Children Occasional Parents Place Polite
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Author Criticism Destroy Head Himself Judgement Poet Writing
Hope costs nothing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Happiness Work Yourself
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning

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