A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

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About Colette

Portrait of Colette

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (French: [sidɔni ɡabʁijɛl kɔlɛt]; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette or as Colette Willy, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella Gigi,...

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

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

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

It's so curious: one can resist tears and "behave" very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.

It was on that road and at that hour that I first became aware of my own self, experienced an inexpressible state of grace, and felt at one with the first breath of air that stirred, the first bird, and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round.

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A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

—Joyce Carol Oates

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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

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History

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