Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
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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.