"By means of an image we are often……" — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet."
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80 Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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