Quote of the day
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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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