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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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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part…
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The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought.…
— Albert Einstein
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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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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When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ...…
— Claude Bernard
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FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as…
— Ambrose Bierce
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ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.
— Colin Maclaurin
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He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake,…
— William Shakespeare
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