Famous Quotes / Marguerite Yourcenar
8 Quotations by Marguerite Yourcenar
- 1. A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the othe ...
- 2. Any truth creates a scandal.
- 3. Every invalid is a prisoner.
- 4. I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
- 5. Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the acce ...
- 6. The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they ...
- 7. We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.
- 8. When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile th ...