More from Colette
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
Gigi (1945)To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Paris From My Window (1944)- Break of Day (1928)
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
Colette on life and death
“The Captain”, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps
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