“ 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 onl… Colette
“ 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… Colette
“ It is only in pain that a woman is capable of rising above mediocrity. Her resistance to pain is infinite; one can use and abuse it without any fear that she will die, as long as some childish physica… Colette
“ 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. Colette
“ Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.", 1964) Colette
“ The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. Colette
“ 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. Colette
“ Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say...what has to be said? Colette
“ I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually. Colette
