Frases de Colette

“Los compañeros perfectos no tienen menos de cuatro patas.”

“Si harás estupideces, hazlas con entusiasmo.”

“Cuando se es amado, no se duda de nada. Cuando se ama se duda de todo.”

“El tiempo recompensa a los adversarios honestos.”

“Cuando era pequeña me decían: "El trabajo lleva en sí mismo su recompensa". Y yo esperaba, tras el esfuerzo, una recompensa misteriosa, abrumadora, una especie de gracia. Todavía la espero.”

“Una mujer disfruta con la certeza de acariciar un cuerpo cuyos secretos conoce y cuyas preferencias son sugeridas por el suyo propio.”

“Los viajes sólo son necesarios para las imaginaciones menguadas.”

“Soportaría gustosa una docena más de desencantos amorosos, si ello me ayudara a perder un par de kilos.”

“La ausencia total de humor hace la vida imposible.”

“Hay días en que la soledad, para alguien de mi edad, es un vino embriagador que te intoxica con la libertad, otros cuando es un tónico amargo y otros cuando es un veneno que te hace golpear la cabeza contra la pared.”

“La seducción que emana de una persona de sexo incierto o simulado es imponente.”

“En sus primeras etapas, el insomnio es como un oasis en el que los que tienen que pensar o sufrir siniestramente se refugian.”

“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”

“Hope costs nothing.”

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”

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

“On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us — ah! what a dream, to live in that! — the other stifles us at the first breath.”

“Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shrivelled innocence of an old maid?”

“Boredom helps one to make decisions.”

“My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.”

“Her childhood, then her adolescence, had taught her patience, hope, silence and the easy manipulation of the weapons and virtues of all prisoners.”

“Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.”

“For to dream and then to return to reality only means that our qualms suffer a change of place and significance.”

“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”

“We only do well the things we like doing.”

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which… I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”

“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…”

“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."

(, 1964)”

“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.”

“There are no ordinary cats.”

“In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.”

“No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.”

“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.”

“look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you…”

“Be happy.
It's one way of being wise.”

“Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.”

“Music is love in search of a word.”

“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.”

“So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.”

“What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!”