Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Writing only leads to more writing.