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We believe ourselves pure as long as we despise what we do not desire.
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Our merchants are sometimes our best geographers, our best astronomers, and our most learned naturalists.
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To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.
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Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...
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Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.
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This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master.
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Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.
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There is more than one kind of wisdom, and all are essential in the world; it is not bad that they should alternate.
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In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir … designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.
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Beyond this village, other villages; beyond this abbey, other abbeys; and after the fortress, more fortresses still. And each of these castles of stone and each wooden hut has its structure of fixed ideas or flimsy, ill-based opinions superposed above it within which fools stay immured, but the wise find apertures for escape.
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Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
June 8, 1903
Died:
December 17, 1987
(aged 84)
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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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