"The memory of most men is an abandoned……" — Marguerite Yourcenar
"The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their neglect."
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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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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when…
— William Bartram
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have…
— Bernard Baruch
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Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is…
— Martha Beck
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
— Halle Berry
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and…
— Martin Van Buren
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Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side.…
— Robert Byrd
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The…
— David Cameron
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Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned…
— Giles Andreae
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Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours.…
— Charlotte Gray
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Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we…
— Peter Mayle
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