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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.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
Writing only leads to more writing.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
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.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette