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Y - Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite
Yourcenar (8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) 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.
“The true
birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon
oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.”
“Our great
mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess,
and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.”
“He had
reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds
himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids
him either to destroy or outdo himself.”
― Memoirs
of HadrianMore information here
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