Colette - Love Quotes

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I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

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When one loves in a certain way, even betrayals become unimportant.

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One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man's step when he climbs the stairs.

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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.

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Love comes disguised as a thunderbolt and often vanishes at the same pace.

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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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Friendship, which is of its nature a delicate thing, fastidious, slow of growth, is easily checked, will hesitate, demur, recoil where love, good old blustering love, bowls ahead and blunders through every obstacle.

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Kiki-The-Demure: Once when I was little She tried to give me castor oil. I scratched and bit her so, she never tried again. Ha! She must have thought she held the devil between her knees. I squirmed, blew fire through my nostrils, multiplied my twenty claws by a hundred, my teeth by one thousand, and finally — disappeared as if by magic.
Toby-Dog: I wouldn't dare do that. You see, I love her. I love her enough to forgive her even the torture of the bath.

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