French novelist (1873–1954)
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954) was a French writer, usually known simply by her pen-name "Colette."
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Pen Names:
Colette Pavic
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Colette Willy
Native Name:
Sidonie-Gabrielle-Claudine Colette
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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Alternative Names:
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men... nine men out of ten are superstitious, nineteen out of twenty believe in the evil eye, and ninety-eight out of a hundred are afraid of spiders. They forgive us — oh! for many things, but not for the absence in us of their own feelings.
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