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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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Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror without any…
— Rajneesh
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Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.
— Rajneesh
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And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone…
— Abdellatif Laabi
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober…
— Paracelsus
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To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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Sometimes, just sometimes, I would like to have someone to hold, to talk to, to love and be loved by...but the thought…
— Unknown Author
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