Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes
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A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
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Any truth creates a scandal.
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Every invalid is a prisoner.
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He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius, according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.
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I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
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Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
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The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.
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We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.
[Adversity]
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