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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
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Montagne-sur-Loing
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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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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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beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water
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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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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.
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When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
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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 wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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 are no ordinary cats.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Hope costs nothing.
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