Marguerite Yourcenar Quote

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.


Memoirs of Hadrian (1951)


I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask,...

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask,...

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask,...

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask,...