"Humility has its origin in an awareness of unworthiness, and sometimes too in a dazzled awareness of saintliness."
— Colette

January 1, 1970

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Speech on being elected to the Belgian Academy, as quoted in “Lady of Letters” Pt. 4, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps