If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie
Marguerite YourcenarThe 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.
Marguerite YourcenarThe founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead.
Marguerite Yourcenar