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Read through the most famous quotes from Marguerite Yourcenar
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. ↗
This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream? ↗
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. ↗
In 1951 Marguerite Yourcenar publiMarguerite Yourcenard in France the novel Mémoires d'Hadrien which Marguerite Yourcenar had been writing with pauses for a decade. This novel has become a modern classic a standard against which fictional recreations of antiquity are measured. "One of the respected writers in French language Marguerite Yourcenar publiMarguerite Yourcenard many novels essays and poems as well as three volumes of memoirs.
Marguerite Yourcenar (8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist.