Best Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar (Top 7)
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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.
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Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
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I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
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nothing is slower than the true birth of a man
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Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one's self without thought of profit.
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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.
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We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.
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