SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

(Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette)


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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.
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I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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.
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Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!
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© Henri Manuel (–1947)
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Born: January 28, 1873
  • Died: August 3, 1954
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Novelist
Biography

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 and was also known as a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best remembered for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name.

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