What did Marguerite Yourcenar mean by: A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. - Marguerite Yourcenar Writer · France Copy
+ age means nothing. If anything I feel that I’m still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marguerite Yourcenar, Childhood, Children, 0 - Marguerite Yourcenar Writer · France
+ No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marguerite Yourcenar, Eternity, Existence, 0 - Marguerite Yourcenar Writer · France
+ Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marguerite Yourcenar, Love, Punishment, Strong, 0 - Marguerite Yourcenar Writer · France
+ Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marguerite Yourcenar, Profit, Self, 0 - Marguerite Yourcenar Writer · France
+ Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marguerite Yourcenar, Beautiful, Book, Children, 0 - Marguerite Yourcenar Writer · France
+ I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marguerite Yourcenar, Honesty, Lying, Truth, 0 - Marguerite Yourcenar Writer · France
+ There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marguerite Yourcenar, Age, Book, 0 - Marguerite Yourcenar Writer · France
+ For me, a poet is someone who is ‘in contact.’ Someone through whom a current is passing. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marguerite Yourcenar, Currents, Passing, Poet, 0 - Marguerite Yourcenar Writer · France
Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Destiny is a worrying concept. I don’t want to be fated, I want to choose. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I am the biggest Destiny’s Child – Beyonce, Kelly, Michelle, all of them – fan in the world. - Jennifer Hudson Singer
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. - William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA
Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity. - William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
