I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
Marguerite YourcenarThe 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 YourcenarI am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.
Marguerite YourcenarI believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.
Marguerite Yourcenar