Colette

“There is no doubt that, if ever my heart were to call my master Chance by another name, I should make an…

— Colette

“The seventeenth of March. In other words, spring. Desmond, people who think themselves smart, I mean those in the height of fashion,…

— Colette

“The more sensitive the lunatic, the less able is he to resist this prying interest of the normal human being. I felt…

— Colette

“Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation”

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“My true friends always gave me this supreme proof of attachment: a spontaneous aversion to the men I loved.”

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“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his…

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“Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say...what has…

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“It can't drag on this way much longer," she said to herself. "One evening he'll whistle under my window, I'll go down…

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“[Julie] had lived a great deal among lies, before plumping for a small life of her own, a sincere and restricted life…

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“The seventeenth, Desmond! Come along at once; everything's all right. We're going to buy a huge bracelet for my wife, an enormous…

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“But when he said in his heart of hearts "Vinca!", the name inseparably linked with his friend, evoked the memory of sand,…

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“Love...is also a form of poison, for to fall in love is to want and to need everything necessary for survival from…

— Colette

“I have no equals, I have only my fellow wayfarers.”

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“Then, bidding farewell to The Knick-Knack, I went to collect the few personal belongings which, at that time, I held to be…

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“Oh! To rationalize oneself into matrimony...Oh! To decide something so grave in life 'after mature consideration'! Choose the color of a dress…

— Colette

“Los compañeros perfectos no tienen menos de cuatro patas.”

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“... what an ennobling sadness you lent to my evening's enjoyment.”

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“They looked at each other in open hostility—she, leaning on her elbow in a flurry of frills and lace; he, sitting side-saddle…

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“I have nothing to say to men and never had. Judging from the little time I’ve spent with them, their usual conversation…

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“Youth is not the age to seduce, it's the age to be seduced.”

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“Do I have a separate room? Don’t I make love to you well?” She hesitated, smiling with exquisite suspicion. “Do you call…

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“Mothers sound so stupid when they praise their daughters to the skies.”

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“People who are perfectly sane and happy don't make good literature, alas.”

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“We all go through that. Everyone's feeling a little out of sorts. No one knows exactly where he stands. Work is a…

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“i heard on their lips the language of passion, of betrayal and jealousy, and sometimes despair - languages with which I was…

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