Suffering turns us into egotists, for it absorbs us complet… - Marguerite Yourcenar

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Suffering turns us into egotists, for it absorbs us completely: it is later, in the form of memory, that it teaches us compassion.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate · 1992 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour (June 8 1903 – December 17 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Marguerite Yourcenar. She was the first woman to be elected to the Académie française.

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Alternative Names: Yourcenar • Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour • Marguerite de Crayencour • Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour

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The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life’s full measure.

Se, per miracolo, qualche secolo venisse aggiunto ai pochi giorni che mi restano, rifarei le stesse cose, persino gli stessi errori, frequenterei gli stessi Olimpi e i medesimi Inferi.

Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?

Suffering turns us into egotists, for it absorbs us completely: it is later, in the form of memory, that it teaches us compassion. - Marguerite Yourcenar

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