Marguerite Yourcenar's Quotes

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.

Every invalid is a prisoner.

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

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.