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Time Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar
- The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
- I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another thirty…
- I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.
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