"The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before."
"As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow."
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Source: Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life. Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.
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