You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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 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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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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