Birthplace Quote 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…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

— 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…

— 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…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.

— 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.…

— 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…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts.

— 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…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“ A amizade é, acima de tudo, certeza - é isso o que a distingue do amor.”

— 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…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“Quel bel levriero... si distese sulla mia vita (Memorie di Adriano, Saeculum Aureum)”

— Marguerite Yourcenar