Sidonie Gabrielle Colette — French Novelist born on January 28, 1873,

Colette was a French novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Her best known work, the novella Gigi, was the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same name. She was also a mime, an actress and a journalist... (wikipedia)

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
There are days when solitude 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.