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Marguerite Yourcenar Quote: “A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists. If death does take him, he is probably unaware of the fact; it amounts to no more for him than a shock or a spasm.”

101. “A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists. If death does take him, he is probably unaware of the fact; it amounts to no more for him than a shock or a spasm.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar Quote: “Each of us has more virtues than he is credited with, but success alone brings them to view, perhaps because then we may be expected to cease practicing them.”

102. “Each of us has more virtues than he is credited with, but success alone brings them to view, perhaps because then we may be expected to cease practicing them.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar Quote: “Sometimes one controls one’s acts; one controls less often one’s thoughts; one never controls one’s dreams. I had dreams.”

103. “Sometimes one controls one’s acts; one controls less often one’s thoughts; one never controls one’s dreams. I had dreams.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar Quote: “A few months after the great crisis I had the joy of seeing the line of caravans re-form on the banks of the Orontes; the oases were again the resort of merchants exchanging news in the glow of their evening fires, each morning repacking along with their goods for transportation to lands unknown a certain number of thoughts, words and customs genuinely our own, which little by little would take possession of the globe more securely than can advancing legions.”

104. “A few months after the great crisis I had the joy of seeing the line of caravans re-form on the banks of the Orontes; the oases were again the resort of merchants exchanging news in the glow of their evening fires, each morning repacking along with their goods for transportation to lands unknown a certain number of thoughts, words and customs genuinely our own, which little by little would take possession of the globe more securely than can advancing legions.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar Quote: “Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.”

105. “Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar Quote: “Iubitorul de flori va primi de la mine doar zadarnice jerbe funerare.”

106. “Iubitorul de flori va primi de la mine doar zadarnice jerbe funerare.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar Quote: “Ik heb mijn strikt persoonlijke tijdrekening, onmogelijk in overeenstemming te brengen met die welke gebaseerd is op de stichting van Rome of het tijdperk van de Olympiaden. Vijftien jaren in het leger hebben korter geduurd dan een ochtend in Athene; er zijn mensen met wie ik mijn leven lang ben omgegaan en die ik in de Onderwereld niet zou herkennen.”

107. “Ik heb mijn strikt persoonlijke tijdrekening, onmogelijk in overeenstemming te brengen met die welke gebaseerd is op de stichting van Rome of het tijdperk van de Olympiaden. Vijftien jaren in het leger hebben korter geduurd dan een ochtend in Athene; er zijn mensen met wie ik mijn leven lang ben omgegaan en die ik in de Onderwereld niet zou herkennen.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar Quote: “But experience shows that in spite of our infinite care in choosing our successors the mediocre emperors will always outnumber the wise, and that at least one fool will be reign per century. In time of crisis these bureaus, if well organized, will go on with what must be done, filling the interim between two good rulers. Some emperors like to parade behind them whole lines of barbarians, bound at the neck, those interminable processions of the conquered.”

108. “But experience shows that in spite of our infinite care in choosing our successors the mediocre emperors will always outnumber the wise, and that at least one fool will be reign per century. In time of crisis these bureaus, if well organized, will go on with what must be done, filling the interim between two good rulers. Some emperors like to parade behind them whole lines of barbarians, bound at the neck, those interminable processions of the conquered.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar Quote: “The years merge: my memory forms but a single fresco whereon are crowded the events and travels of several seasons.”

109. “The years merge: my memory forms but a single fresco whereon are crowded the events and travels of several seasons.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar Quote: “It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.”

110. “It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar Quote: “Sometimes, after long intervals, I have thought to feel the slight stir of an approach, a touch as light as the contact of eyelashes and warm as the hollow of a hand. And the shade of Patroclus appears at Achilles’ side...”

111. “Sometimes, after long intervals, I have thought to feel the slight stir of an approach, a touch as light as the contact of eyelashes and warm as the hollow of a hand. And the shade of Patroclus appears at Achilles’ side...”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar Quote: “One of my best days was the one on which I persuaded a group of seamen from the Archipelago to join in a single corporation in order to deal directly with retailers in the towns. I have never felt myself more usefully employed as a ruler.”

112. “One of my best days was the one on which I persuaded a group of seamen from the Archipelago to join in a single corporation in order to deal directly with retailers in the towns. I have never felt myself more usefully employed as a ruler.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

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