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Things are beautiful if you love them.

— Jean Anouilh Mademoiselle Colombe (1950)

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Source: Mademoiselle Colombe (1950), Act 2, scene 2, trans. Louis Kronenberger
Work: Mademoiselle Colombe, 1950
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