Quotes By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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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.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette