Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

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

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

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
More quotes about Friendship, Love

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

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