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To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly. — Terry Tempest Williams

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,
they are better critics than authors. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion. — Marguerite Young

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul ... — Marguerite Yourcenar

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. — Marguerite Duras

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. — Marguerite Duras

Very early in my life it was too late. — Marguerite Duras

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. — Marguerite Young

She would hang a sign in the restaurant window--Owt to luntsch. Bee bak in a whale. For she could not spell either. — Marguerite Young

If you look close ... you can see that the wild critters have 'No Trespassing' signs tacked up on every pine tree. — Marguerite Henry

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

I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me. — Marguerite Duras

In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen. — Marguerite Moreau

Age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage! — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

We forget that sometimes there is something greater than our pain. That's the pain of the person who loves us, who couldn't protect us from that pain. — Joey W. Hill

Greatness is a two-faced coin - and the reverse is humility. — Marguerite Steen

Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Christopher challenged Louis without forcing him. — Marguerite Martin Gray

People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

To appear rich, we become poor. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

This is bigger than math! You can't just swap one of us out for another! — Claudia Gray

...People - the ones who are left behind - desire answers. Even when we are advised from beyond the grave not to pursue them. — Marguerite Kaye

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard. — Marguerite Young

He carried emotional and mental scars as long-lasting and vivid as the whip marks on his body. — Marguerite Labbe

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? — Marguerite Young

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection ... — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become. — Marguerite Duras

Calumny is the offspring of Envy. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love. — Marguerite De Navarre

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. — Marguerite Young

I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography. — Marguerite Yourcenar

m-shaped valance — Marguerite Ashton

He who would remain honest ought to keep away want. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists. — Marguerite Yourcenar

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come. — Marguerite Yourcenar

For all dead loves and all remembered things. I have travelled through many seas. — Marguerite Young

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach. — Marguerite De Navarre

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. — Juliette Binoche

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Don't blindly follow any leader. — Marguerite Young

We were taught to be good, and we were taught to be careful. But in this world, sometimes, I do not think we can be the two at once. — Marguerite Bennett

I know all one can know when one knows nothing. — Marguerite Duras

Was your magic carpet out of commission? — Marguerite Kaye

Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern. — Marguerite Yourcenar

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. — Marguerite Young

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. — Marguerite Duras

A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing!
Fountain whose waters never cease to spring! — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate. - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Marguerite Duras — Marguerite Duras

It is not that I despise men. If I did I should have no right, and no reason, to try to govern. — Marguerite Yourcenar

If thou followeth a wall far enough, there must be a door in it. — Marguerite De Angeli

We have a multiverse to save. — Claudia Gray

Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close. — Marguerite Yourcenar

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy. — Marguerite Moreau

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. — Marguerite Young

the lover who leaves reason in control does not follow his god to the end. — Marguerite Yourcenar

If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory. Translation by David Downie — Marguerite Yourcenar

So you wish me to forget that you are a sheikh and a prince and a crown prince and soon to be King? That is a lot to forget. — Marguerite Kaye

The artist by his work is known. — Francoise-Marguerite De Sevigne

Yes, the heat lacerated the heart. And alone she resisted it, entire, virgin, the envy of the sea. — Marguerite Duras

Superstition is but the fear of belief. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life. — Marguerite Moreau

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children. — Marguerite Yourcenar

And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. — Marguerite Duras

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

All happiness is a form of innocence. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened. — Marguerite Duras

Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books. — Marguerite Yourcenar

A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. — Marguerite Gardiner

There is no magician like love. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled. — Marguerite De Navarre

I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin. — Marguerite Duras

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again. — Marguerite Moreau

It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. — Marguerite De Angeli

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. — Marguerite De Valois

He says he's lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she's lonely too. She doesn't say why. — Marguerite Duras

A thousand tiny imperfections can make a perfect life. — Joey W. Hill

How you believe the world to be is how the world will be. — Marguerite Tonery

Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic. — Marguerite Duras

Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one's self without thought of profit. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood. — Marguerite Duras

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it. — Marguerite Moreau

It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful. — Marguerite Moreau

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. — Marguerite Duras