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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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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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- 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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I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.
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You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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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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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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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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