Margaret George Quotes

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Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

Margaret George
To love someone is to catch your breath whenever he walks in the room.

Margaret George
So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Margaret George
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.

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We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say...

Margaret George
It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our full weight.

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I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret.

Margaret George
Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

Margaret George
When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love.

Margaret George
What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.

Margaret George
We are more than our bodies, it is true; but we cannot be divorced from them. They are us, and the only way in which we can see one another. Perhaps the gods are above this, but in their mercy, they have given us the guise of bodies.

Margaret George
Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

Margaret George
The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.

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I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

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One always imagines that the days that change one's life must be marked with something extraordinary in nature—storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so on. In truth they are indistinguishable from any other, which is one reason we feel mocked, as if the world is telling us we are inconsequential.

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Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

Margaret George