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Quotes About Mind

Pourquoi nier l'évidente nécessité de la mémoire?
~ Marguerite Duras
Je suis devenue folle en pleine raison.
~ Marguerite Duras
I know it's not a question of beauty, though, but of something else, for example, yes, something else -- mind, for example. What I want to seem I do seem, beautiful too if that's what people want me to be.
~ Marguerite Duras
Elle n'était pas malade de sa folie, elle la vivait comme la santé.
~ Marguerite Duras
ufkun, renksiz, deÄŸiÅŸken, s?n?rlanmas? imkâns?z bir yerlerinde bir sald?r? baÅŸl?yor. zihnin bir yerlerinde bir sald?r? baÅŸl?yor, bedende ise giderek artan bir rahats?zl?k, daha önceki hiçbirinin an?s?na indirgenemez cinsten, kendi üslubunu arayan bir rahats?zl?k.
~ Marguerite Duras
Have you a medicine to cure unhappiness, Doctor? – What unhappiness?
~ Marguerite Poland
Le souvenir n'est qu'un regard posé de temps en temps sur des êtres devenus intérieurs,mais qui ne dépendent pas de la mémoire pour continuer d'exister.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Ce qui nous rassure du sommeil, c'est qu'on en sort, et qu'on en sort inchangé, puisqu'une interdiction bizarre nous empêche de rapporter avec nous l'exact résidu de nos songes.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
and I reminded myself that the reproach of intellectualism is often directed at the most sensitive natures, those most ardently alive, those obliged by their frailty or their excess of strength constantly to resort to the arduous disciplines of the mind.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Che cos'è l'insonnia se non la maniaca ostinazione della nostra mente a fabbricare pensieri, ragionamenti, sillogismi e definizioni tutte sue, il suo rifiuto di abdicare di fronte alla divina incoscienza degli occhi chiusi o alla saggia follia dei sogni? L'uomo che non dorme - da qualche mese a questa parte ho fin troppe occasioni di constatarlo su me stesso - si rifiuta più o meno consapevolmente di affidarsi al flusso delle cose.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
l'amour)... un envahissement de la chair par l'esprit
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Il se servait de son esprit comme d'un coin pour élargir de son mieux les interstices du mur qui de toute part nous confine. Les failles grandissaient, ou plutôt le mur, semblait-il, perdait de lui-même sa solidité sans pour autant cesser d'être opaque, comme s'il s'agissait d'une muraille de fumée au lieu d'une muraille de pierre. (L'abîme)
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Ignoraba que el asco es una de las formas de la obsesión y que, si deseamos algo, es más fácil pensar en ello con asco que no pensar.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Sometimes one controls one's acts; one controls less often one's thoughts; one never controls one's dreams. I had dreams.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
He has left the world of facts to enter that of illusions, and sometimes I think that an illusion is perhaps the shape that the innermost secret realities take in the mind's eye of common folk.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Besides the bore condescending, who, whether good-natured or ill-natured, is a most provoking animal—there is the bore facetious, an insufferable creature, always laughing, but with whom you can never laugh. And there is another exotic variety—the vive la bagatelle bore of the ape kind—who imitate men of genius. Having early been taught that there is nothing more delightful than the unbending of a great mind, they set about continually to unbend the bow in company.
~ Maria Edgeworth
Reality had run and got Sanity.
~ Marian Keyes
Unless it was an elaborate double-bluff on Wayne's part and it was so obvious as to be not obvious at all Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Christ, it was too early in the morning for this sort of mental gymnastics.
~ Marian Keyes
mind. He was driving
~ Marian Keyes
She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked out early without the need for a conenction with anything that really happened. A great deal is misunderstood by small children, then stored as images that attract similar images, confirming and reinforcing.
~ Marianne Fredriksson
There never was a war that was not inward.
~ Marianne Moore
It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.
~ Marianne Williamson
From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.
~ Marianne Williamson
The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you.
~ Marianne Williamson