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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
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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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- 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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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