For to dream and then to return to reality only means that … - Colette

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For to dream and then to return to reality only means that our qualms suffer a change of place and significance.

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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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Don’t ever wear artistic jewellry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.

Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shrivelled innocence of an old maid?

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

For to dream and then to return to reality only means that our qualms suffer a change of place and significance. - Colette

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