Quotes of Marguerite Yourcenar - somelinesforyou

“ Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul... ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream? ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ Keinginan telah mengajarkan kepadamu betapa siasianya keinginan, penyesalan mengajarkan betapa siasianya penyesalan. Bersabarlah wahai kekeliruan, karena kami semua menjadi bagianmu. Bersabarlah wahai Ketidaksempurnaan, berkat engkaulah Kesempurnaan menyadari dirinya. Bersabarlah kemarahan, karena engkau tidak kekal abadi. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ Le souvenir n'est qu'un regard posé de temps en temps sur des êtres devenus intérieurs,mais qui ne dépendent pas de la mémoire pour continuer d'exister. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ Tout bonheur est un chefd'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ Tout bonheur est un chefd'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to the most ancient secrets of man and of earth, not forbidding us, however, a secular explanation of facts and a rational view of human conduct. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ Ce matin, l'idée m'est venue pour la première fois que mon corps, ce fidèle compagnon, cet ami plus sûr, mieux connu de moi que mon âme, n'est qu'un monstre sournois qui finira par dévorer son maître. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ 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. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ 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. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ 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. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ 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 complex. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ Any truth creates a scandal. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ 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 complex. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ 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 complex. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ Any truth creates a scandal. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ 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 complex. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ Any truth creates a scandal. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ Any truth creates a scandal. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ Any truth creates a scandal. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius, according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ 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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