French - Novelist | January 28, 1873 - August 3, 1954
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
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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