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We believe ourselves pure as long as we despise what we do not desire.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Alexis (1929)

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We believe ourselves pure as long as we despise what we do not desire.

We believe ourselves pure as long as we despise what we do not desire.

We believe ourselves pure as long as we despise what we do not desire.

We believe ourselves pure as long as we despise what we do not desire.

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar

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Born: June 8, 1903

Died: December 17, 1987 (aged 84)

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