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Been Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.
- A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
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