On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.
Marguerite Yourcenarage means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.
Marguerite YourcenarI could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another thirty or forty years. But perhaps this is true of most writersโthe emotional storage is done very early on.
Marguerite YourcenarIn the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.
Marguerite Yourcenar