"I have come to think that great men……" — Marguerite Yourcenar
"I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives."
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44 Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel…
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Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when…
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To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling…
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A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand,…
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I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.
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The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
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The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs,…
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The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's…
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A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
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Books are not life, only its ashes.
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One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it…
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I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to…
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The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.
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