Quotes by
Marguerite Yourcenar |
1903-1987 , French writer
French novelist, essayist, and short-story writer who became the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française (French Academy).Her masterpiece is the novel Mémoires d’Hadrien (1951; Memoirs of Hadrian), a historical novel constituting the fictionalized memoirs of that 2nd-century Roman emperor.
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Quotations
| • | My first homelands were books. 2 |
| • | Let's leave the choice to Chance, this straw man of God. 1 |
| • | We are never completely alone: unfortunately, we are always with ourselves. 1 |
| • | Silence is made of unsaid words. 1 |
| • | Every moment is the last, because it is unique. |
| • | We are not free as long as we desire, as we want, as we fear perhaps as long as we live. |
| • | All the best men have said has been said in Greek. |
| • | History is only about the privileged. |
| • | Love is punishment. They punish us for not being able to be alone. |
| • | All terms about love have Greek etymology. Only sex doesn't have. |
| • | To benefit from avoiding a wrong is a way of being guilty. |
| • | I hate defeats. Even the defeats of others. |
