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Marguerite Yourcenar was a renowned French novelist, known for her historical novels. Her works are celebrated for their profound insight and rich imagination, with her most famous novel being 'Orlando'. Born on June 8, 1903, she passed away on December 17, 1987.

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“This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master.”

Firsts May Soul Ends Body My Own Known Morning Masters First Time Faithful Beast Companion Sly Devouring

Book:Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“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.”

Firsts Ideas Certain Voice Teacher Students Masters Singing Relation Intimate New Ideas Nevertheless Elusive Cracked Sirens Teacher And Student

Book:Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“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.”

Firsts Looks Has Beens Book School Degrees First Time Oneself Homeland Birthplace Hadrian

Book:Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.”

Firsts Book Eye First Time Intelligent Casts Homeland Birthplace

Author:Marguerite Yourcenar

About the Author

Born: June 8, 1903
Died: December 17, 1987
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 131

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