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There are no ordinary cats.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Age: 81 †
Born: 1873
Born: January 28
Died: 1954
Died: August 3
Actor
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Montagne-sur-Loing
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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That lovely voice how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Hope costs nothing.
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