Stanislas de Boufflers quotes

Stanislas de Boufflers quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.”
-- Stanislas de Boufflers

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“To reason about love is to lose reason.”
-- Stanislas de Boufflers

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“The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.”
-- Stanislas de Boufflers

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“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”
“What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.”
“We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.”
“You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.”
“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”
“If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.”

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“If I ever fall in love again, I would like it if it were a slightly cold guy. Someone who won't constantly mind about my childish needs but who, the day after the quarrel, for example would offer me a flower accompanied by a sweet note That's kind of guy I need.”
“I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.”
“Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.”
“Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.”

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