“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.”

—  Colette

Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932)

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1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi 1873–1954

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