Edith Piaf Quotes
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I can die now. I've lived twice.
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Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.
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I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes, and when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes.
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I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
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Drugs are a carnival in hell.
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Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.
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When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.
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I don't want to die an old lady.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.
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To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.
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Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.
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I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.
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Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.
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I'm sure that I've already been dead.
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I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
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Americans want beauties, not me. I’m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where’s my feather up the ass? They think I’m sad, they’re dumb. I don’t connect to them
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For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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I'm the only one who still believes in Santa Claus!
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Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: "Death does not exist."
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All I've done all my life is disobey.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
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I don't lie; I improve on my life.
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