"The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent……" — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal."
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80 Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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