Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress, his efforts to begin over again and continue, all seem to me like so many prodigies which nearly compensate for the monstrous mass of ills and defeats, of indifference and error. Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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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