You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
ColetteThey exchanged looks full of mischievous security.
ColetteIt is the image in the mind that links us to our lost treasures; but it is the loss that shapes the image, gathers the flowers, weaves the garland.
ColetteThe word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench and optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.
Colettei heard on their lips the language of passion, of betrayal and jealousy, and sometimes despair - languages with which I was all too familiar.
ColetteJealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. For it is the only suffering that we endure without ever becoming used to it.
ColetteThe lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
ColetteTags: jealousy
I liked being with him, as I like being with swift animals who are motionless when at rest.
ColetteTo write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.
ColetteDon't cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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