Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
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Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
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Today is like a reunion, ... I've met a lot of people at the grave itself through the years.
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
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He who shall teach the child to doubt The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
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Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do.
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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
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What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.
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While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.
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I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.
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The time you wait subtracts the joy The heads the angel you destroy...
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I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
