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Memoirs of Hadrian (1951)
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The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.
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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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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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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Marguerite Yourcenar
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Born:
June 8, 1903
Died:
December 17, 1987
(aged 84)
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