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)

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
Le Pur et l’Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932)
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.