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Quotation by Colette
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Colette (29)Additional Sources
"Animals" Quatre Saisons (c. 1928)as quoted in Woman to Woman, by Julia Gilden and Mark Riedman (1994)"Assassins" Quatre Saisons (c. 1928)Aunt Alicia, in Gigi (1944, trans.1953)Aunt Alicia, in Gigi (1944, trans. 1953)Related Subjects
experience (10) pain (10) death (6) hope (5) love (5) happiness (4) Job (3) learning (3) endurance (3) joy (3)
Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime—I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954), French author. repr. in Earthly Paradise, pt. 4, "The South of France," ed. Robert Phelps (1966). Break of Day (1961).
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