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[Men] forgive us — oh! for many things, but not for the absence in us of their own failings.
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Give me a dozen heart-breaks like that if you think it would help me lose one pound.
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My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.
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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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The more the wonders of the world become inaccessible, the more intensely do its curiosities affect us.
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The telephone shone as brightly as a weapon kept polished by daily use.
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When, like me, one has nothing in oneself one hopes for everything from another.
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The world of the emotions that are so lightly called physical.
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And what then is old age? I shall learn. But when it comes I shall no longer be able to understand it.
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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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It's terrible to think, as I do every time I begin a book, that I no longer have, and never have had, any talent.
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What an interesting life I had. And how I wish I had realized it sooner!
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Only in the snow can both sexagenarian and child squat on the same small sledges and abandon themselves to the slopes. They feel alike and exchange smiles... O simple, precarious, eternal realm of snow!
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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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The seduction emanating from a person of uncertain or dissimulated sex is powerful.
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I am just over an attack of grippe-bronchitis, very unpleasant at my ages (I have two or three).
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[Sleep is]... that provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day.
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Neither knowledge nor diligence can create a great chef. Of what use is conscientiousness as a substitute for inspiration?
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If one wished to be perfectly sincere, one would have to admit there are two kinds of love — well-fed and ill-fed. The rest is pure fiction.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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But once I had set out, I was already far on my way.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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Ah, how much I like you, how well we get on, when you're asleep and I'm awake.
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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Born:
January 28, 1873
Died:
August 3, 1954
(aged 81)
Bio:
Colette was a French novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Her best known work, the novella Gigi, was the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same name.
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