"I knew that good like bad becomes a……" — Marguerite Yourcenar
"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 mask, given time, comes to be the face itself."
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44 Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar
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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 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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