Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.