The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.
Marguerite YourcenarThis morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master.
Marguerite YourcenarTo stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.
Marguerite Yourcenar