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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Inspirational Quotes (48)

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If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.
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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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beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water
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I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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