• It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  French writer 1873-1954
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. thoughts
2. outline
3. firmer
4. change
5. after
6. death

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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. by : Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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