"Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion……" — Marguerite Yourcenar
"Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes..."
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Marguerite Yourcenar
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44 Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar
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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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