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Marguerite Yourcenar has 46 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by…
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Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume…
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To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the…
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A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has…
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I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.
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The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
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The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite…
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The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.
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A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
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I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism…
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Books are not life, only its ashes.
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One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is…
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that…
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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire
— George Matthew Adams
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Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression
— Lucretia Mott
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By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently…
— Mark Twain
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A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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In every man s life there lies latent energy. There is, however, a spark that, if kindled, will set the whole being…
— James Cash Penney
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Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them…
— Mark Twain
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We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning.…
— Will Rogers
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But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole…
— Jose Marti
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When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.
— Lisa Kleypas
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