Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Quotes

• Nobody was born nonviolent, No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Violence

• Am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

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  Tags in Change

• You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

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  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Enthusiasm

• What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.

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  Topics in Life

• Real poverty is lack of books.

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  Tags in Book

• Dreams are the way to unfulfilled wishes in the individual; visions are the way to unfulfilled dreams in mankind.

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  Topics in Dream

• There are some people who live in a dream world, but there are others who turn their dreams into a world most men only dream of.

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  Topics in Dream

• For to dream and then to return to reality only means that our qualms suffer a change of place and significance.

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  Topics in Dream

• A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

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  Tags in Gratitude, Understanding, Relationships

• Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Absence

• It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

  Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

  Topics in Children, Family

  Tags in Colette

• I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.

  Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

  Topics in Grief, Life, Love

  Tags in Creed, Credo

• Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers.

  Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

  Topics in Life, Mother

• To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry, Silence

• Time spent with cats is never wasted.

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  Tags in Time, Cat

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (56)

Birth:	28th January, 1873
Death:	3rd August, 1954
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Novelist

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