Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?


Marguerite Gardiner

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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
Apenas llegado a Sharax, el fatigado emperador había ido a sentarse a la orilla del mar, frente a l...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
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
Il segreto più profondo di Olimpia è racchiuso in quest'unica nota cristallina: lottare è un gioc...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of ...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my firs...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
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
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
Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to negl...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
El amor es un castigo. Somos castigados por no haber podido quedarnos solos.
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
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
Pero los escritores mienten, aun los más sinceros. Los menos hábiles, carentes de palabras y frase...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
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
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what drea...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
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