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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Age: 81 †
Born: 1873
Born: January 28
Died: 1954
Died: August 3
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.
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If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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