Stephanie Crayencour quotes
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“Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a'  l'espe' ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il e chappe me" me a'  l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human.”
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“Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations over a void.”
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“Entre le ro" le de sauveur et celui de complice du bourreau,j'aper c° ois tout au plus l'incommode emploi de victime. Between the role of saviour and that of butcher's accomplice, all I see left for you is the unsavoury role of victim.”
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“Que le Dieu qui nous tue nous vienne en aide! God who kills us, come to our rescue!”
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“Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a stone; a candid hand; a bent knee which contains all the speed of the foot race; a torso which has no face to prevent us from loving it.”
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“Entre le ro" le de sauveur et celui de complice du bourreau,j'aper c° ois tout au plus l'incommode emploi de victime. Between the role of saviour and that of butcher's accomplice, all I see left for you is the unsavoury role of victim.”
-- Stephanie Crayencour
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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
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“He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.”
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.”
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