“When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.”
“I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.”
“But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.”
“The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.”
“It’s nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.”
“If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles,”
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Colette is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Anne Collette, French actress
Colette is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Anne Collette (born 1937), French actress
Claude Colette (1929–1990), French racing cyclist
Gisèle Colette (1920–2003), French swimmer
Irié Lou Colette (died 2021), Ivorian businesswoman
Jacques Colette (born 1929), Belgian philosopher
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873–1954), French novelist
Sheena Colette, American actress
Théo Colette (born 1927), Belgian footballer
Not who you're looking for? Others named Colette: French novelist (1873–1954) · French retail fashion shop · 2013 film by Milan Cieslar · Australian racehorse
