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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
French Novelist
Born: Jan 28, 1873
Died: Aug 3, 1954
Always Down First Time Will You
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Life Wonderful Wish Only Had Sooner Wonderful Life Realized
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealous Jealousy Smell Alike Betrayed
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
Sad Love Past Had Longer Because Am Ashamed Present
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Freedom You Solitude Wine Poison Others Bitter Beat Head Days Heady Makes Still Wall Against Your Tonic
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Think Those Oasis Insomnia Take Almost Refuge Stages Which Who Suffer Early
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Me Man Proof Given True Spontaneous True Friends Supreme Devotion Always Friends Loved Aversion
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Finger Touch Wing Never Your Butterfly
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Our Perfect Never Feet Than Fewer Companions Four
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Matter Furnishing Worse Find Absence Ugliness Than Far Certain
You do not notice changes in what is always before you. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
You Before Changes Always Notice
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. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
First Breath Live Other Worlds Unknown Dream Only Between Narrow Them Us Planet Choice Two
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
Meets Once Bad Hat Rarely Absolute Lifetime Part Fellow Him Always Real Authentic Artist Decent Real Thing Ordinary Even Villain Thing
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Time You Long Long Time Pleases Longer Look Pains
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. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
You Judge Worth Sit Own Down Everything Destroy Writer Put Head Stuff Most Without His Author Pity Then Your Who
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Friendship Wise Politeness Refined Oil Mechanism Apply
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
Illusion Will Girl Young Having Recover Another Pity Young Girls Disillusionment Moment Who Moments Waste Need
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Virtues Faults Husbands Excess Wives Caused Often
Total absence of humor renders life impossible. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Life Impossible Humor Total Absence
Writing only leads to more writing. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Communication Writing More Only Leads
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Value Object Temptation Measured Ever
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Age Old Old Age Up Very Forgetting Grave Keeps Brink
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Silence Poet Response Acceptable Flattering Even

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