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

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Marguerite Yourcenar

#Memories Quotes #Love Life Quotes #Past Quotes

“In the end, forever, you and I will be in Heaven or Hell. Period.”
“I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.”
“What stands between heaven and earth is merely the acceptance of ourselves as apart of this world and our placement of ourselves.”
“Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.”
“The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.”
“When you hear all these things about homosexual marriage, this has nothing to do with homosexual rights. The whole objective is the destruction of the traditional family. It has nothing to do with homosexuals.”
“When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.”
“Rudolph Giuliani will be the first Secretary of State whose last public office was mayor, the most thoroughly domestic public office that we have.”

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