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I have lived ten years of wild rovings, of conquests and discoveries, in those woods; the day when I have to leave them my heart will be very heavy. — Colette

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work. — Colette

Writing only leads to more writing. — Colette

We only do well the things we like doing. — Colette

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak. — Colette

Her nature is like a demonstrative cat's; she is delicate, acutely sensitive to cold, and incredibly caressing in her ways. — Colette

One's character is determined not how she gets caught in the downpour of disappointment, but how she finds the hope to look for the rainbow. — Colette Freedman

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It is the image in the mind that binds us to our lost treasures, but it is the loss that shapes the image. - Colette — Judith Viorst

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Everything from Colette to Kerouac. — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now! — Colette

By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer. — Colette

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards. — Colette

It's that knowledge that sustains you through tough times, the certainty that you will always be less without each other than you are together. — Colette McBeth

Music is love in search of a word. — Colette

It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though they were speaking to me. — Diane Drake

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. — Colette McBeth

Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems. — Colette

Love is not an honorable sentiment — Colette

There is no doubt that, if ever my heart were to call my master Chance by another name, I should make an excellent Catholic. — Colette

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen. — Colette

He who thinks they know it all, is bound to take the greatest fall. — Colette Parrino

Hope costs nothing. — Colette

I'm not changing the subject, just providing a methodical walkthrough of your fragile glass house and very impressive stone collection. — Colette Moody

There are no ordinary cats. — Colette

I went to collect the few personal belongings which ... I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude. — Colette

Go right to the solution so that there won't be a problem.
-Colette — Colette Parrino

Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love. — Colette Inez

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

Tomorrow is but a metaphor to a door that may never open. — Colette Parrino

I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf. — Liz Goldwyn

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death. — Colette Dowling

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Be willing to dance the victory dance as if your greatest dreams are realized, and watch how easily things fall into place. — Colette Baron Reid

I want nothing from love, in short, but love. — Colette

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. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Curious how people can go on doing the same thing day after day! — Colette

When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes. — Colette

I have no equals, I have only my fellow wayfarers. — Colette

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. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A good book is a portal that will take you anywhere in the world. — Colette

Youth is not the age to seduce, it's the age to be seduced. — Colette

Mothers sound so stupid when they praise their daughters to the skies. — Colette

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

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

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Your choices today will create your tomorrow. — Colette Maat

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you ... — Colette

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Work's just like school, except this time it's a life sentence. No parole. — Colette Snowden

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Two o'clock already! High time for a woman of letters who has turned out badly to go to sleep. — Colette

One can't write of love while making love. — Colette

To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. — Colette

Do not think, as you read this, that I am painting my own portrait. Be patient, it is only my model. — Colette

I don't understand. How can a credit card ever be rejected? It's not like it's a kidney!" Colette laughed. — Kevin Kwan

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

I have found my voice again and the art of using it ... — Colette

They exchanged looks full of mischievous security. — Colette

Incompatibility became established between them like a new season of the year. — Colette

If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured. — Saint Colette

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

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. — Colette

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water — Colette

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

Are you committed to your highest vision for your life or are you just satisfied to dream? — Colette Baron Reid

After you, probably anyone can have me who wants me. A woman, many women. But never another cat. — Colette

And since, through lack of vocation or from habit, [Julie] was prone to confuse pity with boredom, she felt herself practically a prisoner ... — Colette

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

Women need to do more. We need to find out what it is we're afraid of, and go beyond. — Colette Dowling

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually. — Colette

You do not notice changes in what is always before you. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

My true friends always gave me this supreme proof of attachment: a spontaneous aversion to the men I loved. — Colette

If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting. — Colette

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

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is. — Colette Baron Reid

What an ennobling sadness you lent to my evening's enjoyment. — Colette

At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I liked being with him, as I like being with swift animals who are motionless when at rest. — Colette

Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say ... what has to be said? — Colette

I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It is the image in the mind that links us to our lost treasures; but it is the loss that shapes the image, gathers the flowers, weaves the garland. — Colette

I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once. — Colette Freedman

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. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

We have only one real shot at liberation, and that is to emancipate ourselves from within — Colette Dowling

Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation — Colette

Trying to restructure a perfectly structured script is like trying to fit in a size four jeans when you're a size ten. — Colette Freedman

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. — Colette

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. — Colette

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