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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/1614/">Quotes by <em>Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Colette was the pen name of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (January 28, 1873 August 3, 1954). · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."

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

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"Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... "

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"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."

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"And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised."

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"But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious."

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

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"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."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle · Girls · 1 fans >>
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"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."

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"Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?"

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