My purpose was simply to diminish that mass of contradictions and abuses which eventually turn legal procedure into a wilderness where decent people … - Marguerite Yourcenar

He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.

Ho compreso che il suicidio apparirebbe una prova d'indifferenza, fors'anche di ingratitudine, alla piccola cerchia di amici devoti che mi circondavano: non voglio lasciare al loro affetto questa immagine del suppliziato che digrigna i denti, e non sa sopportare ancora una tortura.

It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present.