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That lovely voice how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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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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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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If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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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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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water
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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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Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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 pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
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If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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