Powerful Sidonie Gabrielle Colette for Daily Growth
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Value, Measured, Ever, Temptation
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
Other, Planet, Worlds, Narrow
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Enthusiasm, Will, Things, Foolish
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Modesty, Either, Nor, Flower
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, Oasis, Which, Stages
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Forgetting, Grave, Very, Brink
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Feet, Never, Perfect, Companions
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
Poison, Against, Still, Solitude
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Butterfly, Never, Finger, Wing
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Children, Bad, Bad Thing, Politely
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Empty, Forehead, Theatrical, January
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Cigarette, Lives, Smokers, Every Time
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Friendship, Wise, Oil, Refined
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Always, Supreme, Given, Spontaneous
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Suffering, More, Waste, Honorable
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Life, Wish, Sooner, Wonderful Life
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Pretty, Weaknesses, Terror, Spiders
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Changes, Always, Before, Notice
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Woman, Equality, She, Demands
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Intelligence, She, Equal, Demands
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
Villain, Always, Meets, Real Thing
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Long Time, Pains, Longer, Pleases
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, Ashamed, Present
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Acceptable, Even, Flattering, Response
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Virtues, Often, Caused, Excess
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.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
New, Country, Away, Unknown
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Find, Absence, Far, Furnishing
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy, Jealous, Alike, Betrayed
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
Waste, Having, Recover, Illusion
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Traveler, Lot, Even, Foot
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Year, Old, Still, Astonished
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
Own, Pity, Author, Destroy
Writing only leads to more writing.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Communication, Writing, More, Leads
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Wisdom, Happy, Wise, One Way
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy, Sight, Low, Humbled
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Humor, Impossible, Absence, Total
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Happy, Childhood, Poor, Preparation
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