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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.
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That lovely voice how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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