Colette: Trending quotes

“Music is love in search of a word.”

“look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you…”

“There are no ordinary cats.”

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”

“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”

“Be happy.
It's one way of being wise.”

“No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.”

“There are days when solitude, for someone my age, 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.”

“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)”

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which… I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

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

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

“Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.”

“Her childhood, then her adolescence, had taught her patience, hope, silence and the easy manipulation of the weapons and virtues of all prisoners.”

“My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.”

“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.”

“Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shrivelled innocence of an old maid?”

“Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.”