"It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts……" — Marguerite Yourcenar

"It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present."

— Marguerite Yourcenar

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44 Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel…
Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when…
To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling…
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand,…
I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.
The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs,…
The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's…
A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that…
Books are not life, only its ashes.
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 Admirable Quotes

This quote is filed under Admirable Quotes, one of 231 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically… — Mortimer Adler
I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really… — Anthony Bourdain
A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own… — Anita Brookner
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign… — James Buchan
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. — Albert Camus
McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to… — Jim Cantalupo
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. — Lord Chesterfield
I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis… — Stephen Ambrose
Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality. — Walter J. Phillips
Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed… — Theodore Beale
Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark.… — Thomas de Quincey

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