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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.
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
Belgium
Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour
Yourcenar
Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour
Marguerite de Crayencour
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The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
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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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All happiness is a form of innocence.
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Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.
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