Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others.
Marguerite YourcenarIf 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 Yourcenar