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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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One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ...…
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If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would…
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I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.
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When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the…
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The only dream I ever had was the dream of New York itself, and for me, from the minute I touched down…
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I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The reason I became successful is because I touched. I touched my community.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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It seemed like whatever I touched, I was breaking record after record. I just knew I was on. I completely destroyed all…
— Wilt Chamberlain
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My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my…
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I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll…
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I do want to state that I have never kissed a girl nor have I touched a girl immorally or with sexual…
— Bill Gothard
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box.…
— Quincy Jones
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