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All Quotes by author - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
" A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. "
Poor
Childhood
Happy
" A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. "
Pretty
Weaknesses
Spiders
" 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. "
Bad
Artist
Always
" A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. "
Equality
Woman
She
" Be happy. It's one way of being wise. "
Happy
Wise
Be Happy
" 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. "
Born
I Am
Heart
" I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. "
Believe
Time
Suffering
" If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles. "
Many
Too
Without
" 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. "
Present
Ashamed
I Am
" In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. "
Take
Early
Insomnia
" In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. "
Far
Matter
Find
" It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. "
Bad
Should
Place
" It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. "
Friendship
Oil
Politeness
" January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. "
Us
Empty
Endure
" Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. "
Jealousy
Down
Us
" Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you. "
Pains
Look
Long
" My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. "
True
Always
Friends
" Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. "
Finger
Your
Touch
" No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. "
Object
Measured
Temptation
" One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. "
Forgetting
Old
Up
" 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. "
Live
Unknown
Two
" Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. "
Never
Than
Perfect
" Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. "
Flower
Sincerity
Spontaneous
" 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. "
You
Judge
Head
" Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. "
Light
Excuse
Idleness
" The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. "
Faults
Excess
Wives
" The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. "
Alike
Jealousy
Jealous
" There are days when solitude 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. "
Poison
You
Wine
" 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. "
Young
Illusion
Moments
" The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. "
Who
Traveler
Time
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