Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

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• You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Teacher

  "The New York World-Telegram and Sun" Newspaper, 1961.

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• Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Time, Cat, Funny Cat

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• Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Happiness, Happy, Wise

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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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  Family, Children, Parenting

  "My Mother's House". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1922.

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• Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Giving Up, Equality, Men

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• What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Years, Age, Growing

  "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.

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• Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

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  Writing, Judging, Down And

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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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  Love, Sad, Past

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• Hope costs nothing.

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  Cost

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• There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Wall, Being Alone, Wine

  "Freedom". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1908.

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• There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Wine, Blue, Connoisseur

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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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  Cat, Solitude, Resolve

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• Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

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  Wisdom, Time, Pain

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• If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Women, Food, Memorable

  "Close to Colette". Book by Maurice Goudeket, 1956.

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• There are no ordinary cats.

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  Cat, Animal, Pet

  "There hangs a tail ..." by Justine Hankins, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2004.

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• Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

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  Dog, Miracle, Luck

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• No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

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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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  Travel, Feet, Goes On

  "Paris From My Window". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1944.

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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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  Book, Smell, Titles

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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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  Loss, Bouquets, Treasure

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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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  Love, Sad, Broken Heart

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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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  Art, Memories, Flower

  "Mes Apprentissages". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1936.

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• To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.

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  Struggle, Flower, Writing

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