"When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two……" — Marguerite Yourcenar
"When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is too complex."
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Marguerite Yourcenar
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44 Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar
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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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I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to…
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More Assertions Quotes
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer…
— Winston Churchill
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If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of…
— Paul Dirac
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By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity…
— Mark Doty
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Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies…
— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
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Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source…
— Unknown Author
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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
— Ann Radcliffe
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The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious…
— Socrates
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From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains…
— Edward Anthony Spitzka
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The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to…
— Franz Joseph Gall
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All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
— Rudolf Carnap
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