Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette cytaty
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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette znana pod pseudonimem Colette – francuska pisarka, autorka powieści obyczajowo-psychologicznych. Znana głównie z opartego na motywach autobiograficznych cyklu o Klaudynie . Członkini m.in. Królewskiej Belgijskiej Akademii Języka i Literatury Francuskiej oraz Akademii Goncourtów. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Styczeń 1873 – 3. Sierpień 1954   •   Natępne imiona Coletteová, Sidonie G. Colette
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Fotografia
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette: 87   Cytatów 3   Polubienia

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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette cytaty

„Trudno zadowolić jednocześnie wszystkich i samą siebie. Wolę zacząć od siebie…”

Klaudyna w szkole
Wariant: Trudno zadowolić jednocześnie wszystkich i samą siebie.

„Niczego nie dawaj, niczego nie przyjmuj.”

Czyste nieczyste

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette: Cytaty po angielsku

“I want nothing from love, in short, but love.”

Colette książka The Vagabond

Źródło: The Vagabond

“To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.”

Speech on being elected to the Belgian Academy, as quoted https://books.google.com/books?id=5KMkAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22To+be+astonished+is+one+of+the+surest+ways+of+not+growing+old+too+quickly.%22+intitle%3A%22Earthly+Paradise%22+inauthor%3AColette&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22You+must+not+pity+me+because+my+sixtieth+year+finds+me+still+astonished.+To+be+astonished+is+one+of+the+surest+ways+of+not+growing+old+too+quickly.%22 in “Lady of Letters” Pt. 4, Earthly Paradise (autobiography, 1966) ed. Robert Phelps
Kontekst: You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

“If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles”

As quoted in Close to Colette by Maurice Goudeket
Attributed

“The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.”

Speech on being elected to the Belgian Academy, as quoted in “Lady of Letters” Pt. 4, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps

“Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken.”

Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932)

“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.”

Źródło: Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932), Ch. 9

“Humility has its origin in an awareness of unworthiness, and sometimes too in a dazzled awareness of saintliness.”

Speech on being elected to the Belgian Academy, as quoted in “Lady of Letters” Pt. 4, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps