Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Colettewas a French novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Her best known work, the novella Gigi, was the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same name. She was also a mime, an actress and a journalist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 January 1873
CountryFrance
struggle flower writing
To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.
wisdom time pain
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
love sad broken-heart
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.
temptation tempted objects
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
fall sleep cutting
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?
wine blue connoisseur
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
writing
Writing only leads to more writing.
cat solitude resolve
I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
art voice found
I have found my voice again and the art of using it...
love sad past
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.
want
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
dream unknown-worlds two
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.
dog cat animal
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
time shapes assuming
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.