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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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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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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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
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Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
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I got an attitude, that's rude because I walked over Elvis' grave in some blue suede shoes.
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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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I'll definitely wear orange on the red carpet!
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
