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When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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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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 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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
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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 am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
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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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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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