"Leaving behind books is even more beautiful —……" — Marguerite Yourcenar

"Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children."

— Marguerite Yourcenar

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44 Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel…
Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when…
To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling…
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand,…
I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.
The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs,…
The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's…
A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that…
Books are not life, only its ashes.
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it…

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Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we… — Chinua Achebe
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their… — Margaret Atwood
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to… — Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon

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