Quotes by : Marguerite Yourcenar

I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of....

Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it,....

It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar,....

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

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

A part of every life, even a life meriting very little regard, is spent in searching out the reasons....

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the only....

Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some....

Le souvenir n'est qu'un regard posé de temps en temps sur des êtres devenus intérieurs,mais qui ne....

We lose track of everything, and of everyone, even ourselves. The facts of my father's life are less....