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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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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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To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
Hope costs nothing.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!
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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 -
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
There are no ordinary cats.
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Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette