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Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels QUOTES

Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels QUOTES

1 " Then, bidding farewell to The Knick-Knack, I went to collect the few personal belongings which, at that time, I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude. "

― Colette , Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels

2 " [Julie] had lived a great deal among lies, before plumping for a small life of her own, a sincere and restricted life from which all pretense, even in matters sensual, was banished. How many crazy decisions and allegiances to successive aspects fo the truth! Had she not, one day when her costume for a fancy dress had demanded short hair, cut off the great chestnut mane that fell below her waist when she let it down? 'I could have hired a wig,' she thought. 'I might also, at a pinch, have passed the rest of my life with Becker or Espivant. If it comes to that, I could also have gone on stirring puddings in a saucepan at Carneilhan. The things "one might have done" are, in fact, the things one could not do... "

― Colette , Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels

3 " And since, through lack of vocation or from habit, [Julie] was prone to confuse pity with boredom, she felt herself practically a prisoner... "

― Colette , Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels