"The mask, given time, comes to be the…" — Marguerite Yourcenar

"The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself"

— 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 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…
I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to…

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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about… — J. J. Abrams
If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times. — Lance Armstrong
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's… — Neil Armstrong
I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,… — Arthur Ashe
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman
I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I… — Jensen Ackles
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and… — Red Adair

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