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- A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
- Colette
- Hope costs nothing.
- Colette
- 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.
- Colette, 'Freedom,' 1908
- Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
- Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
- You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette, in New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1961
- The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
- Colette, Paris From My Window, 1944
- We only do well the things we like doing.
- Colette, Prisons and Paradise, 1932
- 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.
- Colette, The Last of Cheri, 1926
- It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
- Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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