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I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily
Marguerite Yourcenar
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Marguerite Yourcenar
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 7
Died: 1987
Died: December 17
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Brussels
Belgium
Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour
Yourcenar
Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour
Marguerite de Crayencour
Never
Seasoned
Digest
Sauce
Honesty
Easily
Lying
Order
Truth
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All happiness is a form of innocence.
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Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things to the succession of generations, both divine and human and to change within stasis. Western man is virtually alone in wanting to make his God into a fortress and personal immortality into a bulwark against time.
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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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age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.
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Every invalid is a prisoner.
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is too complex.
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Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.
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Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others.
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Morals are a matter of private agreement decency is of public concern.
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Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.
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Any truth creates a scandal.
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Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.
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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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Translating is writing.
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The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
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