But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish.… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul... — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“To eat fruit is to welcome into oneself a fair living object, which is alien to us but is nourished and protected like us… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others.… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“ A amizade é, acima de tudo, certeza - é isso o que a distingue do amor.” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Quel bel levriero... si distese sulla mia vita (Memorie di Adriano, Saeculum Aureum)” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
