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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Age: 81 †
Born: 1873
Born: January 28
Died: 1954
Died: August 3
Actor
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Montagne-sur-Loing
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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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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Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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That lovely voice how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
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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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You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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