Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate Quotes

“Suffering turns us into egotists, for it absorbs us completely: it is later, in the form of memory, that it teaches us compassion.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate

“Sometimes one controls one's acts; one controls less often one's thoughts; one never controls one's dreams. I had dreams.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate

“[A]nd death is perhaps nothing more than giving birth to a soul.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate

“I shall pass over the somnambulism of desire, the abrupt resolution which sweeps away all others, the alacrity of a body which, finally, no longer obeys anything but itself. We often describe the happiness of a soul which disencumbers itself of the body; there are moments in life when the body disencumbers itself of the soul.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate