"Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern."

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Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

Marguerite Yourcenar

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“I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.”
“As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take place without resistance. At first, the public, and particularly its religious portion, denounced the rising doubts as atheism.”
“The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.”
“If they prescribe pain killers that may increase the possibility of death so long as their specific intention was not to end life." "Doctors should do everything they can to reduce pain, but not to administer drugs to end life, I think we go over a line then.”
“The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.”
“This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.”
“People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so”

Source : "Fictional character: Michonne". The Walking Dead TV Series, "Say the Word", www.imdb.com. 2012.
“Even if I wanted to run for Ethiopia, I wouldn't expect the government or federation to choose me to do that.”

Source : Source: www.sbnation.com

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