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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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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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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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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Sometimes those who care for the whole community must act in a way that harms the individual. For a good man it never becomes easy and he avoids it when he can; but when people need him to be harsh, he will be harsh indeed, and he won't shrink from it, he'll do it with his own hand and let it be known what he does.
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My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...
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We take the same line as the United States: the austerity policies need to be accompanied by greater flexibility to stimulate growth.
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That American confidence is more alive and well than it should be, to this day. But it's such a problem. There's a blindness to that confidence, a presumption that what's good for me is good for you. No! That's what teenagers think: the world revolves around them. As a nation, we've got to stop thinking that way. We're getting too old for that.
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I'm interested in damaged people because we've all been roughed up in one way or another.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.
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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.
