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All Quotes by author - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

" A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. "

" A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. "

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

" 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. "

" In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. "

" In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. "

" It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. "

" It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. "

" January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. "

" Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. "

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

" My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. "

" Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. "

" No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. "

" One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. "

" 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. "

" Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. "

" Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. "

" 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. "

" Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. "

" The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. "

" The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. "

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