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Colette Quotes and Quotations
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes. 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. The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. Hope costs nothing. Be happy. It's one way of being wise. What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. Friendship, which is of its nature a delicate thing, fastidious, slow of growth, is easily checked, will hesitate, demur, recoil where love, good old blustering love, bowls ahead and blunders through every obstacle. You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. We only do well the things we like doing. We only do well the things we like doing. Total absence of humor renders life impossible. Time spent with cats is never wasted. |