All Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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