"When she raises her eyelids, it's as if……" — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes."
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80 Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for…
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Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a…
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable…
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the…
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Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from…
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Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But…
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