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Colette Quotes: 7

  • You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

  • 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 only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

  • 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."(Casual Chance, 1964)

  • Hope costs nothing.

  • No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

  • What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.

  • Be happy. It's one way of being wise