Best Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes
- Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul... All
- Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit. Doe
- And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing… Afterall
- There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty. Age
- nothing is slower than the true birth of a man Birth
- The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief… Abandoned
- Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which… Cultivation
- The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser… Been
- The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never… Able
- If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie David
- This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream? Bed
- Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children. Aging
- He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius,… Bids
- Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not what I seek.… Adding
- Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and… Absurd
- Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will… Abandon
- I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily Digest
- Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books. Birthplace
- Everything that we do affects our fate for better or for worse. The circumstances into which we are born also exert a tremendous influence; we… Account