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My virtue's still far too small, I don't trot it out and about yet.
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It is man who has affixed the word 'wild' to the name animal.
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Her childhood, then her adolescence, had taught her patience, hope, silence and the easy manipulation of the weapons and virtues of all prisoners.
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One always writes for someone. Rarely for several people. Never for everyone.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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Born:
January 28, 1873
Died:
August 3, 1954
(aged 81)
Bio:
Colette was a French novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Her best known work, the novella Gigi, was the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same name.
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