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Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul.

Marguerite Yourcenar
Games, Play, Soul
Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

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.

Marguerite Yourcenar
Morning, Faithful, Soul
Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar

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
Eye, Play, Soul
Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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