"There are books which one should not attempt……" — Marguerite Yourcenar

"There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty."

— 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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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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