Quotes from book
The Pure and the Impure

Colette
Original title
Le Pur et l'impur and Ces Plaisirs
(French, 1932)
The Pure and the Impure is a 1932 novel by the French writer Colette. It consists of a series of conversations about sex, gender and attraction. Colette considered it her best book, and described it as "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography".