By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lo… - Colette

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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.

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About Colette

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 • Colette Willy

Native Name: Sidonie-Gabrielle-Claudine Colette • Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Alternative Names: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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William Somerset Maugham George Eliot Honoré de Balzac Jane Austen Truman Capote

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Humility has its origin in an awareness of unworthiness, and sometimes too in a dazzled awareness of saintliness.

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.

Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.

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