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Marguerite Yourcenar  Quotes
Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the contempt into which that rash ruling has fallen should extend to...

—Marguerite Yourcenar

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Law
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Je suis contre le particularisme de pays, religion, d’espece. Ne comptez pas sur moi pour faire du particularisme de sexe. Je crois qu’une bonne femme vaut un homme bon, qu’une femme intelligente vaut un homme...

—Marguerite Yourcenar

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FeminismMysogyny
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İnsanların pek çoğunun bellekleri, sevmekten vazgeçtikleri ölülerinin sessiz sedasız yattıkları terk edilmiş mezarlıklardır. unutulmayan acı unutkanlıklarına yönelen bir küfürdür.

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AutobiographyHadrianMarguerite-Yourcenar
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Dans ce monde fort confus, il y a quelques prescriptions assez claires, dit le philosophe. J’ai pour métier de soigner.

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CaringInspirationalMedicine
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Cette encombrante enveloppe qu’il lui fallait laver, remplir, réchauffer au coin du feu ou sous la toison d’une bête morte, coucher le soir comme un enfant ou comme un vieillard imbécile, servait contre lui d’otage...

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Body
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Chabrias, ever preoccupied to offer the gods the worship due them, was disturbed by the progress of sects of this kind among the populace of large cities; he feared for the welfare of our ancient...

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

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BooksChildfreeLegacy
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Il segreto più profondo di Olimpia è racchiuso in quest’unica nota cristallina: lottare è un gioco, vivere è un gioco, morire è un gioco; profitti e perdite non sono che distinzioni passeggere, ma il gioco...

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Ancient-GreeceHistorySport
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On n’est bien que libre, et cacher ses opinions est encore plus gênant que de couvrir sa peau.(La conversation à Innsbruck)

—Marguerite Yourcenar

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

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PessimismPhilosophy
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It is not by blood, anyhow, that man’s true continuity is established: Alexander’s direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue,...

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BloodContinuityFamily
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Y en este vasto continente humano, la infinita variedad de las razas no destruye la unidad misteriosa del conjunto, del mismo modo que la diversidad de las olas no rompe la majestuosa monotonía del mar.

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

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LifePhilosophy
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Comme tout le monde, je n’ai à mon service que trois moyens d’évaluer l’existence humaine: l’étude de soi, la plus difficile et la plus dangereuse, mais aussi la plus féconde des méthodes; l’observation des hommes,...

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BooksHadrianHumanity
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La vie est atroce ; nous savons cela. Mais précisément parce que j’attends peu de choses de la condition humaine, les périodes de bonheur, les progrès partiels, les efforts de recommencement, et de continuité me...

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ClassiquesFrancaisFrench
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Tout bonheur est un chef-d’oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l’altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l’abêtit.

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HappinessLifeWisdom
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But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by our successors; the seeds of error and of ruin contained even in what...

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EvilExistenceExistentialism
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Every invalid is a prisoner.

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InvalidPrisoner
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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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BooksKnowledgeLiterature
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I lent only half an ear to those well-intentioned folk who say that happiness is enervating, liberty too relaxing, and that kindness is a corruption for those upon whom it is practiced. That may be;...

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KindnessLibertyLife
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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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Care
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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,...

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LawReligion
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Il se servait de son esprit comme d’un coin pour élargir de son mieux les interstices du mur qui de toute part nous confine. Les failles grandissaient, ou plutôt le mur, semblait-il, perdait de lui-même...

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ReasonThinking
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I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

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LieOrder
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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

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Inspirational
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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 me, n’est qu’un monstre sournois qui finira par dévorer son...

—Marguerite Yourcenar

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AgeLifeLife-And-Death
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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.

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GettingWriter
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Et j’avoue que la raison reste confondue en présence du prodige même de l’amour, de l’étrange obsession qui fait que cette même chair dont nous nous soucions si peu quand elle compose notre propre corps,...

—Marguerite Yourcenar

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AmourInspiration
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Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.

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Law
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We lose track of everything, and of everyone, even ourselves. The facts of my father’s life are less known to me than those of the life of Hadrian. My own existence, if I had to...

—Marguerite Yourcenar

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LifeMemory
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Les mots trompent, puisque celui de plaisir couvre des réalités contradictoires, comporte à la fois les notions de tiédeur, de douceur, d’intimité des corps, et celles de violence, d’agonie et de cri. La petite phrase...

—Marguerite Yourcenar

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InspirationLove
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