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Writing only leads to more writing.
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
Librettist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Montagne-sur-Loing
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If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
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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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Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water
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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.
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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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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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- 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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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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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