What did Marguerite Yourcenar mean by: Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit. - Marguerite Yourcenar Writer · France Copy
+ Of all our games, love’s play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marguerite Yourcenar, Games, Soul, 0 - Marguerite Yourcenar Writer · France
+ 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
+ I think still that someone wiser than I might well have remained happy till his death. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Marguerite Yourcenar, 0 - Marguerite Yourcenar Writer · France
+ A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marguerite Yourcenar, Destiny, Insanity, 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
+ But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don’t destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marguerite Yourcenar, Circumstances, Ghost, 0 - Marguerite Yourcenar Writer · France
+ It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marguerite Yourcenar, Admirable, Difficulty, Stars, 0 - Marguerite Yourcenar Writer · France
+ Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Marguerite Yourcenar, Duty, Hours, 0 - Marguerite Yourcenar Writer · France
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it’s not arrogant. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
