L'anima non è bella
se non quando è nuda.
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Tout silence n'est fait que de non-dits.
- Marguerite Yourcenar, Alexis (1929)
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thought i was about to permanently lose myself to one man
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"Había contraído contigo compromisos imprudentes y la vida se encargó de protestar: te pido perdón, lo más humildemente posible, no por dejarte, sino por haberme quedado tanto tiempo".
Marguerite Yourcenar.
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La mano che entra in contatto con le cose
la pelle, tutta la superficie del corpo
lo sguardo, e quello che guarda.
Marguerite Yourcenar
_____Elene Usdin
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"The true place of birth is the one where for the first time we look at each other with an intelligent gaze; my first homelands were books".
A fragment from Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian".
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Le mie inquietudini perduravano, ma le dissimulavo come delitti.
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Stones, like us, stand at the intersection of countless lines crossing one another and receding to infinity, at the center of a field of forces too unpredictable to be measured; and we awkwardly call the result chance, hazard, or fate.
Marguerite Yourcenar, from the introduction to The Writing of Stones by Roger Caillois
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Marguerite Yourcenar por Edouard Boubat
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A veces me crujen los huesos por el peso de todas las vidas que no he vivido.
Marguerite Yourcenar
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C'è fra di noi qualcosa che è meglio dell'amore: è una complicità.
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