Emily Prager quotes

“Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.”
-- Emily Prager

Source : Emily Prager (1987). “A visit from the footbinder, and other stories”, Vintage

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“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”

“I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.”

“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”

“And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.”

“Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.”

“suffering is the essence of success!!!”

“posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.”

“We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.”

“The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.”

“are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?”

Source : Amin Maalouf, Alberto Manguel (1999). “Ports of call”, Harvill Press