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Hope costs nothing.
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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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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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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That lovely voice how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.
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beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water
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If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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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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You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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