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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water
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