“Je sais très bien, depuis longtemps, que j’ai un cœur déraisonnable, mais, de le savoir, ça ne m’arrête pas du tout.” LoveSchoolCoeurClaudine à L éCole Book:Claudine at School Source: Claudine at School
“Les beaux yeux qui ne demandent qu’à sourire !” LoveSchoolRelationshipFin De SiècleClaudine à L éCole Book:Claudine at School Source: Claudine at School
“Rest assured that long patience and jealously concealed sorrows have shaped, refined, and hardened that woman who makes people exclaim: "She's made of steel!" She's simply "made of woman," and that's sufficient.” Women Book:The Vagabond Source: The Vagabond
“Es horrible pensar, como me pasa cada vez que empiezo un libro, que ya no tengo, que nunca he tenido talento alguno.” LiteraturaLibrosEscrituraCartasEscritura Citas Author:Colette
“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)” WritingCreative ProcessEditingSelf Criticism Author:Colette
“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.” WritingCreative ProcessSelf DoubtSelf SatisfactionProlixity Book:Earthly Paradise Source: Earthly Paradise
“I felt my soul overwhelmed with sorrow because, though I'm not in the least fond of dancing, I should have liked to dance with someone whom I adored with all my heart: I should have liked to have that someone there so that I could relieve my tension by telling him everything that I confided only to Fanchette or to my pillow (and not even to my diary) because I so wildly needed that someone, and this humiliated me, and I would never surrender myself except to the someone whom I should completely love and completely know - dreams, in short, that would never be realized!” ColetteClaudine Book:Sido ;Le Pur Et L'impur ; L'étoile Vesper ; Le Fanal Bleu Source: Sido ;Le Pur Et L'impur ; L'étoile Vesper ; Le Fanal Bleu
“When are a 'lady on your own,' in other words the landlords' abomination, outcast and terror all rolled into one, you take what you find, lodge where you may, and put up with newly plastered walls.” ColetteThe Vagabond Book:The Vagabond Source: The Vagabond
“Je me demande, entre parenthèses, pour qui vous la gardez? Pour un employé à deux mille quatre qui l'épousera et qui lui fera quatre enfants en trois ans?” MarriagePovertySugar Baby Book:Gigi Source: Gigi