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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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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 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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If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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