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“ ”Is the soul only the supreme development of the body, the fragile evidence of the pain and pleasure of existing? Is it, on the contrary more ancient than the body, which is modeled on its image and which serves it momentarily, more or less well, as instrument?
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
Era demasiado jovem para ter ideia que de que a existência não é feita de arrebatamentos súbitos e de obstinada constância, mas de compromissos e de esquecimentos.
Toda mujer que ama es una pobre inocente.
Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.