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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
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