Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar

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.
– Marguerite Yourcenar
Every invalid is a prisoner.
– Marguerite Yourcenar
I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
– Marguerite Yourcenar
Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children.
– Marguerite Yourcenar
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.
– Marguerite Yourcenar
When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is complex.
– Marguerite Yourcenar