Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

• Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.

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  Strong, Love Is, Punishment

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• A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.

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  Destiny, Thinking, Insanity

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). "Con los ojos abiertos: Conversaciones con Matthieu Galey", Boston : Beacon Press

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• Sabía que lo bueno como lo malo se convierte en rutina, que lo temporal tiende a perdurar, que lo externo cala en lo interno y que la máscara, con el tiempo, llega a ser el propio rostro.

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  Vida, Cambio, Sabiduría

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). "Memorias de Adriano"

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• All happiness is a form of innocence.

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  Happiness, Innocence, Form

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). "Con los ojos abiertos: Conversaciones con Matthieu Galey", Boston : Beacon Press

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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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  Mistake, Trying, Doe

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). "Memorias de Adriano"

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• We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

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  Wise, Grief, Adversity

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1994). “Fires”, p.79, University of Chicago Press

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• To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.

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  Spiritual, Journey, Watches

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Nicoletta Lanciano (2005). “Hadrian's villa: between heaven and earth : a tour with Marguerite Yourcenar”

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• All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it.

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  Art, Errors, Stupidity

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• age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.

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  Children, Mean, Childhood

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). "Con los ojos abiertos: Conversaciones con Matthieu Galey", Boston : Beacon Press

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• Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

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  Our World, Hands, Life And Death

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). "Con los ojos abiertos: Conversaciones con Matthieu Galey", Boston : Beacon Press

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• A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences.

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  Lying, Book, Years

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• The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself

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  Inspirational, Faces, Mask

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). "Memorias de Adriano"

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• Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.

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  Book, Eye, Intelligent

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• Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

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  Agreement, Matter, Morality

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). "Memorias de Adriano"

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• Creo que la amistad, como el amor, del que es un tipo particular, requiere casi tanto arte como una coreografía de éxito.

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  Friendship, Art, Believe

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• Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.

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  Past, Far Away

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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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  Self, Doe, Profit

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• For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.

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  Philosophy, Moving, Destiny

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). "Memorias de Adriano", New York, Farrar

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• For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

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  Poet, Passing, Currents

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). "Con los ojos abiertos: Conversaciones con Matthieu Galey", Boston : Beacon Press

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• Everything that we do affects our fate for better or for worse. The circumstances into which we are born also exert a tremendous influence; we come into the world with debits and credits for which we are not responsible already posted to our account: this teaches us humility.

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  Humility, Fate, Credit

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). "Con los ojos abiertos: Conversaciones con Matthieu Galey", Boston : Beacon Press

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• De todos nuestros juegos, el juego del amor es el único que amenaza con desestabilizar el alma.

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  Juegos, Jugar, Alma

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). "Memorias de Adriano"

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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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  Dream, Cities, Bed

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1994). “Fires”, p.99, University of Chicago Press

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• Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress, his efforts to begin over again and continue, all seem to me like so many prodigies which nearly compensate for the monstrous mass of ills and defeats, of indifference and error. Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time.

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  Loss, Men, Order

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). "Memorias de Adriano"

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• Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine and human; and to change within stasis. Western man is virtually alone in wanting to make his God into a fortress and personal immortality into a bulwark against time.

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  Men, Civilization, Generations

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• Esta mañana se me ocurrió por primera vez que mi cuerpo, mi fiel compañero y amigo, más verdadero y mejor conocido para mí que mi propia alma, puede ser después de todo sólo una bestia astuta que terminará devorando a su amo.

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  Mañana, Fiel, Alma

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). "Memorias de Adriano", New York, Farrar

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