Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Hope costs nothing.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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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.
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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.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.