Georges Brassens Quotes

I've left this life with no rancour, I'll never have toothache again, Now I lie in the communal grave, the communal grave of time.

Georges Brassens

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• I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.

  

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• As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

  

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• Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

  

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• The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

  

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• Research can trap you into the past.

  

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• What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

  

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• Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

  

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• MTV ruined music for us.

  

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• The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, The murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am.

  

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• PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

  

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  • Light
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• Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.

  

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• Without God all things are permitted.

  

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• When you hit 30, it's that time of self-reflection. Some people are a success. Some people feel like they haven't achieved what they wanted to. Some people are married, some have kids, some are still single.

  

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• From cradle to grave, the Religious Right is concerned about every choice you make.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Choice
  • Grave
  • Religious Right

• He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.

  

  Texas Guinan
  • Grave
  • Looked
  • Bought

• It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Death
  • Dust
  • Grave

• I've left this life with no rancour, I'll never have toothache again, Now I lie in the communal grave, the communal grave of time.

  

  Georges Brassens
  • Grave
  • Communal
  • Rancour