"But happiness is brittle, and if men and……" — Marguerite Yourcenar
"But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts."
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44 Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel…
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Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when…
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To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling…
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A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand,…
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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,…
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The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's…
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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…
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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…
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More Brittle Quotes
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they…
— Laozi
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Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
— Tom Robbins
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The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common…
— Canvass White
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The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut…
— K.J. Parker
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The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to…
— Jamais Cascio
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Upon identifying the reason…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we…
— William Gaddis
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I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day…
— Ivan Goncharov
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A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in…
— Walker Percy
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Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.
— Billy Sunday
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The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard…
— Joshua Waitzkin
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