"Of all our games, love's play is the……" — Marguerite Yourcenar
"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."
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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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I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that…
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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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