Marguerite Yourcenar Short Quotes

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Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.

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Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes...

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To have merit to abstain from a fault, is a manner to be guilty.

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Passion satisfied has its innocence, almost as fragile as any other.

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One must not fear the words anymore when one consented to the things.

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All would have transformed us if we had the courage to be what we are.

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

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Few bipeds, from Adam's time down, have been worthy of the name of man.

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Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

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Our defects are sometimes the better adversaries when we oppose our vices.

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It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present.

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A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.

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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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I think still that someone wiser than I might well have remained happy till his death.

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Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others...

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For me, a poet is someone who is in contact. Someone through whom a current is passing.

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I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

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Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?

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Age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.

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I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.

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The unfortunate thing is that, because wishes sometimes come true, the agony of hoping is perpetuated.

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A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

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Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or change it.

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Our merchants are sometimes our best geographers, our best astronomers, and our most learned naturalists.

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In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.

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The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.

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The writer must soak up the subject completely, as a plant soaks up water, until the ideas are ready to sprout.

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Life was to me like a horse to whose motions one yields, but only after having trained the animal to the utmost.

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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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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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