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Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

Marguerite Yourcenar quotes about love

American Novelist June 7, 1903 – December 17, 1987

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Of all our games, love’s play is the only one which threatens to unsettle our soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himself to the body’s ecstasy. …Nailed to the beloved body like a slave to a cross, I have learned some secrets of life which are now dimmed in my memory by the operation of that same law which ordained that the convalescent, once cured, ceases to understand the mysterious truths laid bare by illness, and that the prisoner, set free, forgets his... Marguerite Yourcenar
If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie Marguerite Yourcenar
That mysterious play which extends from love of a body to a love of an entire person has seemed to me noble enough to consecrate to it one part of my life. Marguerite Yourcenar
But this practice [vegetarianism], in which youthful love of austerity finds charm, calls for attentions more complicated than those of culinary refinement itself; and it separates us too much from the common run of men in a function which is nearly always public, and in which either friendship or formality presides. Marguerite Yourcenar
The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never have; however that may be, my loves have left me more often than I have left them, for I have never been able to understand how one could have enough of any beloved. The desire to count up exactly the riches which each new love brings us, and to see it change, and perhaps watch it grow old, accords ill with multiplicity of conquests. Marguerite Yourcenar
And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing somewhere within the cracked voice of him who is first to reveal a new idea. The greatest seducer was not Alcibiades, afterall, it was Socrates. Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar quote: "Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens..."
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul... Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar quote: "I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more..."
I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry. Marguerite Yourcenar

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