"Look for a long time at what pleases……" — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you."
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80 Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette has 80 quotes on this site.
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I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for…
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Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a…
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable…
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the…
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Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from…
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Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But…
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
— Aristotle
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He…
— Isaac Asimov
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation…
— Teresa of Avila
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
— Randolph Bourne
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
— Jacob Bronowski
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects…
— Samuel Alexander
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of…
— John Jay Chapman
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If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the…
— Sri Chinmoy
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia,…
— Paulo Coelho
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
— Thomas Aquinas
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
— Diane Arbus
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