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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
Ghostwriter
Journalist
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Playwright
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Montagne-sur-Loing
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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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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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Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water
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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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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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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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That lovely voice how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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