Quote of the day
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
Marguerite Yourcenar
Born: June 8, 1903
Died: December 17, 1987 (aged 84)
Bio: Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3.
Known for:
- Memoirs of Hadrian (1951)
- The Abyss (1968)
- Oriental Tales (1938)
- Coup de Grâce (1939)
- Two lives and a dream (1987)
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