A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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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.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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