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It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present.
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
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Thoughts
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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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Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.
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He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.
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I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another thirty or forty years. But perhaps this is true of most writers—the emotional storage is done very early on.
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Any truth creates a scandal.
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Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others.
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No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.
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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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Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.
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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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If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory. Translation by David Downie
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I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives.
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the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.
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The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
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