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If we want to be sincere, we m...

If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

- and how time flies! What, ha...

- 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!

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

A few days later, I found my m...

A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

But what is the heart, madame?...

But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up by loving.

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

On the first of May, with my c...

On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

beautiful December grapes, blu...

beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

At the top of the iron stairca...

At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

So now, whenever I despair, I ...

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.

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

Hope costs nothing....

Hope costs nothing.

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

I did not look for her, becaus...

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

Chance, my master and my frien...

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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Don't cudgel your brains over ...

Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

Is suffering so very serious? ...

Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

The word 'pure' has never reve...

The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

Time spent with a cat is never...

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

It's so curious: one can resis...

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

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Truffles must come to the tabl...

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

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There are connoisseurs of blue...

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

Researchers, with science as t...

Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph. . . . Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

By means of an image we are of...

By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.

Gabrielle Colette 131 quotes

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