Author: Marguerite Yourcenar

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.

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

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

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.

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

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