Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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About Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, known mononymously as Colette or as Colette Willy, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name. Her short story collection The Tendrils of the Vine is also famous in France.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteI 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.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.