Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar

About Marguerite Yourcenar:

Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3.
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Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Y en este vasto continente humano, la infinita variedad de las razas no destruye la unidad misteriosa del conjunto, del mismo modo que la diversidad de las olas no rompe la majestuosa monotonía del mar.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Je suis contre le particularisme de pays, religion, d'espece. Ne comptez pas sur moi pour faire du particularisme de sexe. Je crois qu'une bonne femme vaut un homme bon, qu'une femme intelligente vaut un homme intelligent. C'est une verite simple.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Les mots trompent, puisque celui de plaisir couvre des réalités contradictoires, comporte à la fois les notions de tiédeur, de douceur, d'intimité des corps, et celles de violence, d'agonie et de cri. La petite phrase obscène de Poseidonius sur...

Marguerite Yourcenar

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

Marguerite Yourcenar

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameMarguerite Yourcenar
  • Descriptionwriter
  • BornJune 8, 1903
  • DiedDecember 17, 1987
  • CountryFrance; United States Of America; Belgium
  • ProfessionWriter; Translator; Poet; Novelist; Essayist
  • WorksMemoirs Of Hadrian; The Abyss
  • AwardsCommander Of The Legion Of Honour; Prix Femina; Erasmus Prize; Prince Pierre Foundation