Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
Citations
Colette. Claudine at School. Translated by Antonia White, Secker & Warburg, 1956.
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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 and was also known as a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best remembered for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name.