Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above … - Marguerite Yourcenar

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You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Yet I ought to know that only music permits a succession of chords.

Writing, Expression, Choices, Perpetual, Know

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I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

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A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.

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Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.

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Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

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age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.

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it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

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