Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children. - Marguerite Yourcenar

The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never have; however that may be, my loves have left me more often than I have left them, for I have never been able to understand how one could have enough of any beloved. The desire to count up exactly the riches which each new love brings us, and to see it change, and perhaps watch it grow old, accords ill with multiplicity of conquests.

No sabía que el dolor contiene extraños laberintos por los cuales no había terminado de andar

La passion comblée a son innocence, presque aussi fragile que toute autre.