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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
January 28, 1873 - 1954
Nationality: French
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: French Novelist

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

   

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

    Topics: Age

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

   

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

   

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

   

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

    Topics: Children

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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