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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Age: 81 †
Born: 1873
Born: January 28
Died: 1954
Died: August 3
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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