(66 quotes found)
“What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised”
Sidonie Gabrielle
“We only do well the things we like doing”
“We don't feel at ease here: we are surrounded by too much beauty”
“The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.”
“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
“A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.”
“Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime / I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.”
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
