"To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth."

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Source : Marguerite Yourcenar, Nicoletta Lanciano (2005). “Hadrian's villa: between heaven and earth : a tour with Marguerite Yourcenar”

Marguerite Yourcenar

#Spiritual Quotes #Journey Quotes #Watches Quotes

“What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?”
“Army life don't agree with me.”
“Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.”
“Brandon Wegher left camp to deal with some personal things. We hope he can return in the very near future”
“When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.”
“Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.”
“The program I use is called MED Soundstudio. It's basically a column of numbers that relate to pitch, duration, the type of sound. If I want to play a chord, I have to press keys on a keyboard - like a computer keyboard, on my Amiga - that relate to sharps and flats, note by note.”
“A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.”

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