The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. - Marguerite Yourcenar

Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.

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.

Qui serait assez insensé pour mourir sans avoir fait au moins le tour de sa prison?