Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.
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Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.
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In the band I was in, we knew when we’d done the take, because it just feels good. It’s like golf. When you hit that ball right, you know. You feel it – you feel the connection. And connecting is good.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
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So burrow in. Snuggle deep. A winter idyll of simple splendor awaits.
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We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.
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Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.
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I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW. Or maybe it'll be the kind of soon that never happens.
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The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
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You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.
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The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.
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Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
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Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole.
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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
