I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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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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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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