"The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself"

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Marguerite Yourcenar

#Faces Quotes #Mask Quotes #Given Quotes

“The idea of it was I was thinking about how when you're a kid you get this unconditional love and you spend the rest of your life trying to find that, but you can't because everyone's in it for their own thing. It's kind of cynical.”
“As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss.”
“Rent' was my first professional job, ever.”
“She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in.”
“It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even more important because it's your mind that allows the words to come to life.”

Source : Jack Gantos (2011). “Dead End in Norvelt”, p.182, Macmillan
“All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.”
“Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.250, A&C Black
“I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.”

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