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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

French novelist known for her unique female perspective and literary style. Colette's works are characterized by their autobiographical nature and were published under the pen name Sidonie Gabrielle Colette. Her notable works include 'Claude Moine' and 'Gigi'. Colette's literature has had a profound impact on 20th-century women's literature. more

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“This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.”

“O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.”

“That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.”