Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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A healthy, vital society is not one in which we all agree. It is one in which those who disagree can do so with honor and respect for other people's opinions... and an appreciation of our shared humanity.
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
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I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.
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Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
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One sin another doth provoke.
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Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.
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Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.
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Not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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Arsenal have the wind in their sails and they need to put their foot to the floor.
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One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
