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It’s nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.

— Colette Journey for Myself (1971)

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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

New York World-Telegram and Sun (1961)

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Break of Day (1928)

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Paris From My Window (1944)

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

The world of the emotions that we so lightly call physical.

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