Marguerite Yourcenar - Human Quotes

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The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.

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The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.

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Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.

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Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress, his efforts to begin over again and continue, all seem to me like so many prodigies which nearly compensate for the monstrous mass of ills and defeats, of indifference and error. Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time.

Marguerite Yourcenar