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 YourcenarTo stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.
Marguerite Yourcenarthe press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.
Marguerite YourcenarCruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.
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