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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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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While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.
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... all his ambitions were dust in his grave. It all came down to dust in the end.
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Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.
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You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.
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It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
