Of all our games, love’s play is the only one which threatens to unsettle our soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himse… - Marguerite Yourcenar

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Of all our games, love’s play is the only one which threatens to unsettle our soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himself to the body’s ecstasy. …Nailed to the beloved body like a slave to a cross, I have learned some secrets of life which are now dimmed in my memory by the operation of that same law which ordained that the convalescent, once cured, ceases to understand the mysterious truths laid bare by illness, and that the prisoner, set free, forgets his torture, or the conqueror, his triumph passed, forgets his glory.

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About Marguerite Yourcenar

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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Се сомневам дека и цела филозофија на светот би успеала да го укине ропството; во најдобар случај, ќе му го смени името. Во состојба сум да замислам полоши форми на ропство од нашите, полоши зашто се поподмолни; било затоа што ќе успеат да ги претворат луѓето во глупави и задоволни машини што замислуваат дека се слободни иако се под јарем, било затоа што кај нив ќе се развие, исклучувајќи ги безделничењето и уживањата, желба за постојана работа, каква што е страста за војување кај варварските раси. Јас повеќе го сакам нашето вистинско ропство од тоа ропство на духот и човечката фантазија.

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