Pero los escritores mienten, aun los más sinceros. Los menos hábiles, carentes de palabras y frases capaces de encerrarla, retienen una imagen pobre y chata de la vida; algunos, como Lucano, la cargan y abruman con una dignidad que no posee. Otros como Petronio, la aligeran, la convierten en una pelota hueca que rebota, fácil de recibir y lanzar en un universo sin peso. Los poetas nos transportan a un mundo más vasto o más hermoso, más ardiente o más dulce que el que nos ha sido dado, diferente a él y casi inhabitable en la práctica. Los filósofos hacen sufrir a la realidad casi las mismas transformaciones que el fuego o el mortero hacen sufrir a los cuerpos; en esos cristales o en esas cenizas nada parece subsistir de un ser o de un hecho tales como los conocimos. Los historiadores nos proponen sistemas demasiado completos del pasado, series de causas y efectos harto exactas y claras como para que hayan sido alguna vez verdaderas. Mucho me costaría vivir en un mundo sin libros, pero la realidad no está en ellos, puesto que no cabe entera.


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Analyzing anything negative that affects their score and aggressively disputing anything erroneous, ...
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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is tha...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
My first attempt to write about Robert Owen was in the form of poetry. Then I turned it into a blank...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it does...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
Like Kay Boyle, whose work I'm wild about, I could have married, written a book with every baby, a b...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
MARGUERITE YOUNG
I bear a heavy gift.
MARGUERITE YOUNG
Life has no beginning, middle or end.
MARGUERITE YOUNG
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything ...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
I had read the histories of mountain climbers, of suffragette captains, of travelers to the Middle E...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me,...
MARGUERITE DURAS
Muy pronto en mi vida fue demasiado tarde.
MARGUERITE DURAS
I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.
MARGUERITE DURAS
Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he ...
MARGUERITE DURAS
I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of ...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
The holidays are such a hectic time. Staying home on New Year's Eve is a way to begin the New Year m...
MARGUERITE ADELMAN
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place rem...
MARGUERITE GARDINER
Започнах да пиша в обкръжение, което твърде силно ме тл...
MARGUERITE DURAS
I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.
MARGUERITE MOREAU
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all t...
MARGUERITE DURAS
Nunca hay centro. Ni camino, ni línea. Hay vastos pasajes donde se insinúa que alguien hubo. No es...
MARGUERITE DURAS
Los besos en el cuerpo hacen llorar. Diríase que consuelan.
MARGUERITE DURAS
I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive cream...
MARGUERITE DURAS
If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
MARGUERITE YOUNG
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in ...
MARGUERITE DURAS
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing d...
MARGUERITE DURAS
And modern houses don't have passages, either, for children to play and run about in, and for dogs, ...
MARGUERITE DURAS
UND suggests dramatic changes quickly.
MARGUERITE COTTO
It did not seem realistic to do this amount of research into the program and not tell people that wa...
MARGUERITE COTTO
We tend to think of program closure as a last resort.
MARGUERITE COTTO
We have worked very hard to reduce expenses through all the units.
MARGUERITE COTTO
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
It was a very elegant line, the Royal Viking.
MARGUERITE DALIANES
I haven't counted how many times I've gone. Easily 40 or so times.
MARGUERITE DALIANES
This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do i...
MARGUERITE OSWALD
Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United Sta...
MARGUERITE OSWALD
We had a guy in our company -- this is what he does for a living -- fall for one. The guy was so con...
MARGUERITE FISCHER
I had a book, which was stolen, the art of the life of the character, in which you present a whole l...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it does...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
God bless pawnbrokers! They are quiet men
MARGUERITE WILKINSON
Justice moves very slowly, but it is nice to know that it does move.
MARGUERITE THOMAS
It's just a chance for people to get together and mingle and have a good time. And to tell the story...
MARGUERITE THOMAS
No officer of the court or citizen of this commonwealth wants to accept that wrongs of this magnitud...
MARGUERITE THOMAS
Probably. But, I'm saying Sarah and her mother had problems to a much greater degree.
MARGUERITE SOWERSBY
She was obsessed with getting her nails done while we were selecting photos for memory boards at ser...
MARGUERITE SOWERSBY
A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Bless...
LADY MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making f...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
LADY MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
~ Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally ...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes t...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
MARGUERITE GARDINER BLESSINGTON
A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.
MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE
Each of us has his place in the world " he said. "If we cannot serve in one way there is always anot...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit.
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine ar...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
Gilds the crenelated towers of the churches here and there, Intensifies the hue of flowers makes thy...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what w...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his ho...
MARGUERITE OGDEN BIGELOW WILKINSON
It is difficult to overcome one's passions, and impossible to satisfy them
MARGUERITE DE LA SABLIERE
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON
Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a li...
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON