Adrienne Monnier Quotes
Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.
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There's so much to be afraid of.
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I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
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And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
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A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
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For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.
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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.
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There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.
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But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity
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Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.
