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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, conocida monónimamente como Colette o como Colette Willy, fue una autora francesa y mujer de letras. También fue mimo, actriz y periodista. Colette es mejor conocida en el mundo angloparlante por su novela corta Gigi de 1944, que fue la base para la película de 1958 y la producción teatral de 1973 del mismo nombre. Su colección de cuentos cortos The Tendrils of the Vine también es famosa en Francia.
“When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles,”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
