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“ ”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.
About Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour (June 8 1903 – December 17 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Marguerite Yourcenar. She was the first woman to be elected to the Académie française.
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Additional quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar
la possibilité de jeter le masque en toutes choses est l'un des rares avantages que je trouve à vieillir
I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.
Suffering turns us into egotists, for it absorbs us completely: it is later, in the form of memory, that it teaches us compassion.