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“[…], my eyes have taken to looking as if they knew something I did not know myself.”

— Colette, from ‘Claudine in Paris’ (1901), as translated by Antonia White. 

“There are some scents one can only take in properly with one’s mouth.”

— Colette, from ‘Claudine in Paris’, first published in 1901, as translated by Antonia White.