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Colette
Geburtstag: 28. Januar 1873
Todesdatum: 3. August 1954
Andere Namen: Coletteová, Sidonie G. Colette
Colette war eine französische Schriftstellerin, Varietékünstlerin und Journalistin. Sie bekam als erste Frau in Frankreich ein Staatsbegräbnis. Wikipedia
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„Vielleicht werde ich im Spiegel nun bald eine freudestrahlende Mitsou sehen. Vielleicht auch eine weinende. Auf jeden Fall aber wird es nicht mehr die Mitsou von früher sein. Diese dumme, diese vernünftige, die nicht lachte und niemals weinte, diese arme Mitsou, die nichts hatte, nicht einmal einen eigenen Kummer.“
Mitsou, ou Comment l'esprit vient aux filles
„Wo die Moral sich nicht überall einnistet. Ich habe einen Sittenrichter geboren.“
— Colette
Cheri and The Last of Cheri
„Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.“
— Colette
L'Envers du music hall (Music Hall Sidelights), "On Tour" (1913)
„Sometimes in my very happiest moments, I feel like crying. My eyes grow dim, my heart seems to choke me. I would like to be sure, in such times of anguish, that everybody loves me; that there is nowhere in the world a sad dog behind a closed door, that no evil will ever come…“
— Colette
Barks and Purrs
Kontext: Toby-Dog: It seems to me that of the two of us it's you they make the most of, and yet you do all the grumbling.
Kiki-The-Demure: A dog's logic, that! The more one gives the more I demand.
Toby-Dog: That's wrong. It's indiscreet.
Kiki-The-Demure: Not at all. I have a right to everything.
Toby-Dog: To everything? And I?
Kiki-The-Demure: I don't imagine you lack anything, do you?
Toby-Dog: Ah, I don't know. Sometimes in my very happiest moments, I feel like crying. My eyes grow dim, my heart seems to choke me. I would like to be sure, in such times of anguish, that everybody loves me; that there is nowhere in the world a sad dog behind a closed door, that no evil will ever come...
Kiki-The-Demure: And then what dreadful thing happens?
Toby-Dog: You know very well! Inevitably, at that moment She appears, carrying a bottle with horrible yellow stuff floating in it — Castor Oil!
„You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.“
— Colette
New York World-Telegram and Sun (1961)
„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)
Quelle: Oeuvres complètes en seize volumes