Quotes by Colette

"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."

"… that provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day."

"By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet."

"A door slamming makes one jump, but it doesn't make one afraid. What one fears is the serpent that crawls underneath it."