Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.
All happiness is a form of innocence. - Marguerite Yourcenar
All happiness is a form of innocence.
- Marguerite Yourcenar
All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stu… - Marguerite Yourcenar
All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stu…
To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth. - Marguerite Yourcenar
To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.
age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages. - Marguerite Yourcenar
age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.
Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern. - Marguerite Yourcenar
Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.
For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free… - Marguerite Yourcenar
For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free…
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has. - Marguerite Yourcenar
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. - Marguerite Yourcenar
A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.
I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, gi… - Marguerite Yourcenar
I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, gi…
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