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age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.
Marguerite Yourcenar
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Marguerite Yourcenar
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 7
Died: 1987
Died: December 17
Essayist
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Brussels
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Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour
Yourcenar
Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour
Marguerite de Crayencour
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Everything that we do affects our fate for better or for worse. The circumstances into which we are born also exert a tremendous influence we come into the world with debits and credits for which we are not responsible already posted to our account: this teaches us humility.
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Translating is writing.
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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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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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Books are not life, only its ashes.
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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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Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.
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The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself composite, made up of equal parts of instinct and training. Here and there protrude the granite peaks of the inevitable, but all about is rubble from the landslips of chance.
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Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.
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Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.
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Morals are a matter of private agreement decency is of public concern.
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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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A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.
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Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
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Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.
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The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
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No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.
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Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others.
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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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Any truth creates a scandal.
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