Avoir du mérite à s'abstenir d'une faute, c'est une façon d… - Marguerite Yourcenar

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Avoir du mérite à s'abstenir d'une faute, c'est une façon d'être coupable.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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

Avoir du mérite à s'abstenir d'une faute, c'est une façon d'être coupable. - Marguerite Yourcenar

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