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A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been

A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences.

Marguerite Yourcenar
Lying, Book, Years

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily

Marguerite Yourcenar
Truth, Honesty, Lying
Quoted in the New York Times, 5 May 1980.

Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.

Marguerite Yourcenar
Lying, Get Well, Cutting
Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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.

Marguerite Yourcenar
Memories, Lying, Grief

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