"I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry."

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Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

Marguerite Yourcenar

#Love Is Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Not Sure Quotes

“You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.”
“Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead”
“To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.”
“We called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer...So we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo, it was the hottest day of record in Washington, or close to it...we went in the night before and opened all the windows...so that the air conditioning wasn't working inside the room.”
“I don't know anything about you, so when you randomly come up and grab my ass, this isn't a friend doing it. It's like, "Who the f### is doing...? I was not expecting that."”
“Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.”
“Keep the faith, and keep going strong!”
“Stop saying "right" to me. I'm starting to feel hostile.”

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