Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar

French writer

Lived from: 1903 - 1987

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: France

Born: 8 june 1903 Died: 17 december 1987

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• 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
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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.

  ― Marguerite Yourcenar
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Subjects in these quotes:

• forgetfulness
• accessories
• abandoned
• unhonored
• cherish
• lasting

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