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The story-tellers and spinners of erotic tales are hardly more than butchers who hang up meat attractive to flies.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Memoirs of Hadrian · May 18, 2005 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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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Additional quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar

Je crois qu'il faut presque toujours un coup de folie pour bâtir un destin.

I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.

On peut dire que tout est prédestiné, que tout est un arrangement extrêmement savant dont nous ne voyons qu'une toute petite partie. On peut dire aussi que tout est chaos, et je me heurterai à ce dilemme jusqu'au bout. (p. 166)