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161 " I've known perfectly well, for a long time, that I have an irrational heart. But knowing it doesn't stop me in the least. "
― Colette , Claudine at School
162 " The fairies have washed their linen in the water of your dress. "
― Colette , Claudine Married
163 " You can be certain that long patience, and griefs jealously hidden have tempered and sharpened and toughened this woman till everyone cries ‘She’s made of steel!’ No, she is merely made of woman. "
― Colette , The Vagabond
164 " Vielleicht werde ich im Spiegel nun bald eine freudestrahlende Mitsou sehen. Vielleicht auch eine weinende. Auf jeden Fall aber wird es nicht mehr die Mitsou von früher sein. Diese dumme, diese vernünftige, die nicht lachte und niemals weinte, diese arme Mitsou, die nichts hatte, nicht einmal einen eigenen Kummer. "
― Colette , Mitsou, ou Comment l'esprit vient aux filles
165 " These leisurely conversations always revealed their worship of the same twin deities - love and money, and would drift away from money and love to come back to Chéri and his deplorable upbringing, to his exceptional good looks (“harmless, after all,” as Léa would say) and to his character (“virtually non-existent,” as Léa would say). They had a taste for sharing confidences, and a dislike of new words or ideas, which they satisfied in these long talks. "
― Colette , Cheri and The Last of Cheri
166 " TOBY-CHIEN : Qu'est-ce que tu fais aujourd'hui ? KIKI-LA-DOUCETTE : Mais...rienTOBY-CHIEN ironique : Pour changer.KIKI-LA-DOUCETTE : Pardon, pour ne pas changer. Quelle est cette rage de changement qui vous possède tous ? Changer, c'est détruire. Il n'y a d'éternel que ce qui ne bouge pas.TOBY-CHIEN : Voilà déjà bien trois heures que je suis éternel. "
― Colette , Dialogues de bêtes
167 " There is no premature death for a man utterly dedicated to conquest, solitude and vain flight: he is always at an age to die "
― Colette