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Colette

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It’s nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
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Journey for Myself (1971) “Beauties,” Quatre Saisons (c. 1928).

 
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