• The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

  Marguerite Yourcenar
  French writer 1903-1987
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. forgetfulness
2. unhonored
3. cherish
4. lasting
5. reproof
6. their

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The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness. by : Marguerite Yourcenar

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