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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.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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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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Peu de bipèdes depuis Adam ont mérité le nom d'homme.

All would have transformed us if we had the courage to be what we are.

I was only the more anxious to make Jerusalem a city like the others, where several races and several beliefs could live in peace; but I was wrong to forget that in any combat between fanaticism and common sense the latter has rarely the upper hand.

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

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