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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
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 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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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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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