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> [To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/to-stay-in-one-place-and-watch-the-seasons-come-and-go-is-tanatmount/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

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## More by Marguerite Yourcenar

> [“Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/any-law-too-often-subject-to-infraction-is-bad-it-is-the-duty-of-the/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

> [Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/of-all-our-games-love-s-play-is-the-only-one-which-threatens-to/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

> [A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/a-book-may-lie-dormant-for-fifty-years-or-for-two-thousand-years-in-a/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

> [“To eat fruit is to welcome into oneself a fair living object, which is alien to us but is nourished and protected like us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/to-eat-fruit-is-to-welcome-into-oneself-a-fair-living-object-which-is/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

> [Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/everything-is-too-far-away-in-the-past-or-mysteriously-too-close/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

> [Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/writing-is-a-perpetual-choice-between-a-thousand-expressions-none-of/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/the-landscape-of-my-days-appears-to-be-composed-like-mountainous/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

> [But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/but-happiness-is-brittle-and-if-men-and-circumstances-don-t-destroy/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

> [A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/a-young-musician-plays-scales-in-his-room-and-only-bores-his-family-a/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

> [“ A amizade é, acima de tudo, certeza - é isso o que a distingue do amor.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/a-amizade-acima-de-tudo-certeza-isso-o-que-a-distingue-do-amor/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/it-is-not-by-blood-anyhow-that-man-s-true-continuity-is-established/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

> [“Quel bel levriero... si distese sulla mia vita (Memorie di Adriano, Saeculum Aureum)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/quel-bel-levriero-si-distese-sulla-mia-vita-memorie-di-adriano/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

> [Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/love-is-a-punishment-we-are-punished-for-not-having-been-strong/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

> [Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/everything-turns-out-to-be-valuable-that-one-does-for-one-s-self/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

> [The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marguerite-yourcenar/the-world-is-big-may-it-please-the-one-who-perchance-is-to-expand-the/)

[Marguerite Yourcenar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marguerite-yourcenar/)

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