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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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More quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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- 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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Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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That lovely voice how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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