Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes About Hadrian

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  • Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes.

    Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”
  • nothing is slower than the true birth of a man

    Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar
  • 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 neglect.

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  • The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

    Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar
  • Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom.

    Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”
  • Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul.

    Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”
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