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 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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We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.
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The gospel breathes the spirit of love. Love is the fulfilling of its precepts, the pledge of its joys, and the evidence of its power.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
