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Marguerite Yourcenar
American
Novelist
About the author
Every invalid is a prisoner.
Marguerite Yourcenar,
American
Novelist
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,
American
Novelist
#Family
#Writer
#Beginning
#Misfortune
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,
American
Novelist
#Men
#Women
#Care
#Temple
I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
Marguerite Yourcenar,
American
Novelist
#Truth
#Order
#Lie