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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

French - Novelist | January 28, 1873 - August 3, 1954

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Friendship Wise Oil Politeness Apply

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

Live Dream Choice Unknown First Two

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Childhood Preparation Happy Poor

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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Time Long You Look Long Time Pains

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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Woman Man Equality Intelligent She

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

Love Sad Past I Am Present Ashamed

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

Judge Worth You Down Without Head

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 Solitude Wine You Wall Head

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Value Temptation Measured Object

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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Children Parents Bad Place Should

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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Man Me Loved Friends True Devotion

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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Time Down True Foot Who Even

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