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Colette war eine französische Schriftstellerin, Varietékünstlerin und Journalistin. Sie bekam als erste Frau in Frankreich ein Staatsbegräbnis. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Januar 1873 – 3. August 1954   •   Andere Namen Coletteová, Sidonie G. Colette
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Colette Berühmte Zitate

„Ich ging, um die wenigen persönlichen Gegenstände zu sammeln, die ... für mich von unschätzbarem Wert waren: meine Katze, meine Entschlossenheit zu reisen, und meine Einsamkeit.“

Colette

„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.“

Colette buch Mitsou

Mitsou, ou Comment l'esprit vient aux filles

„Es gibt im Leben nur drei große Ereignisse: den Tod, die Berühmtheit oder die Liebe. Mein lieber blauer Leutnant, welches von den dreien wird mir wohl als erstes auf den Kopf oder ins Herz fallen?“

Colette buch Mitsou

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

Colette zitat: „Hoffnung kostet nichts.“

„Hoffnung kostet nichts.“

Colette

„Du wirst törichte Dinge tun, aber tue sie mit Begeisterung.“

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„Unsere perfekten Gefährten haben nie weniger als vier Füße.“

Colette

Colette: Zitate auf Englisch

“When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.”

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Claudine and Annie (1903)

“I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.”

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Colette buch The Pure and the Impure

Quelle: The Pure and the Impure

“I want nothing from love, in short, but love.”

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Colette buch The Vagabond

Quelle: The Vagabond

“To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.”

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Speech on being elected to the Belgian Academy, as quoted https://books.google.com/books?id=5KMkAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22To+be+astonished+is+one+of+the+surest+ways+of+not+growing+old+too+quickly.%22+intitle%3A%22Earthly+Paradise%22+inauthor%3AColette&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22You+must+not+pity+me+because+my+sixtieth+year+finds+me+still+astonished.+To+be+astonished+is+one+of+the+surest+ways+of+not+growing+old+too+quickly.%22 in “Lady of Letters” Pt. 4, Earthly Paradise (autobiography, 1966) ed. Robert Phelps
Kontext: You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

“Then, bidding farewell to The Knick-Knack, I went to collect the few personal belongings which, at that time, I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”

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Quelle: Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels

“If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles”

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As quoted in Close to Colette by Maurice Goudeket
Attributed

“But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.”

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Chambre d’Hôtel, "The Rainy Moon" (1940)

“There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.”

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“Wedding Day”, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps

“Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.”

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Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932)

“A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men… nine men out of ten are superstitious, nineteen out of twenty believe in the evil eye, and ninety-eight out of a hundred are afraid of spiders. They forgive us — oh! for many things, but not for the absence in us of their own feelings.”

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Aunt Alicia
Gigi (1945)

“By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.”

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Mes Apprentissages (1936)

“Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: “It’s four o’clock … At five I have my abyss.””

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Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932)

“It’s nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.”

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Journey for Myself (1971) “Beauties,” Quatre Saisons (c. 1928).

“Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.”

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Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932)

“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.”

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Speech on being elected to the Belgian Academy, as quoted in “Lady of Letters” Pt. 4, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps

“The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.”

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Paris From My Window (1944)

“As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.”

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“The South of France”, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps

“Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken.”

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Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932)

“It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.”

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"The Captain", Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps

“Kiki-The-Demure: Once when I was little She tried to give me castor oil. I scratched and bit her so, she never tried again. Ha! She must have thought she held the devil between her knees. I squirmed, blew fire through my nostrils, multiplied my twenty claws by a hundred, my teeth by one thousand, and finally — disappeared as if by magic.
Toby-Dog: I wouldn't dare do that. You see, I love her. I love her enough to forgive her even the torture of the bath.”

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Barks and Purrs

“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.”

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Quelle: Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932), Ch. 9

“The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.”

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Noces (1945)

“In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.”

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The Photographer’s Wife
Gigi (1945)

“Humility has its origin in an awareness of unworthiness, and sometimes too in a dazzled awareness of saintliness.”

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Speech on being elected to the Belgian Academy, as quoted in “Lady of Letters” Pt. 4, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps

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