Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Books by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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