Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

The More I Think Of It, The More Our Ideas, Our Idols And Our So-called Holy Practices, And Those Of Our Visions Which Supposedly Are Ineffable, All Seem To Me To Be Engendered Merely By The Stirrings Of The Human Machine, Exactly As Is The Wind From Our Nostrils Or From Our Netherparts, And As Is Our Sweat And Salty Water From Tears, Or The White Blood Passed In Love, Or The Muddy Excrement Of The Body. It Enraged Me To Think That Man Should So Waste His Own Substance In Construction Of Theories That Were Almost Always Pernicious, And Should Speak Of Chastity Before Having Examined The Whole Machinery Of Sex; That He Should Debate The Question Of Free Will Instead Of Pondering The Thousand Obscure Reasons Which, For Example, Cause You To Blink If I Suddenly Point A Stick At Your Eyes; Or That He Should Talk Of Hell Before Having Looked More Closely Into The Question Of Death.

Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes: The More I Think Of It, The More Our Ideas, Our Idols And Our So-called Holy Practices, And Those Of

Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes: The More I Think Of It, The More Our Ideas, Our Idols And Our So-called Holy Practices, And Those Of

Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes: The More I Think Of It, The More Our Ideas, Our Idols And Our So-called Holy Practices, And Those Of

Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes: The More I Think Of It, The More Our Ideas, Our Idols And Our So-called Holy Practices, And Those Of

Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes: The More I Think Of It, The More Our Ideas, Our Idols And Our So-called Holy Practices, And Those Of

Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes: The More I Think Of It, The More Our Ideas, Our Idols And Our So-called Holy Practices, And Those Of

Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes: The More I Think Of It, The More Our Ideas, Our Idols And Our So-called Holy Practices, And Those Of

Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes: The More I Think Of It, The More Our Ideas, Our Idols And Our So-called Holy Practices, And Those Of

Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes: The More I Think Of It, The More Our Ideas, Our Idols And Our So-called Holy Practices, And Those Of

Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes: The More I Think Of It, The More Our Ideas, Our Idols And Our So-called Holy Practices, And Those Of

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