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I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

~Marguerite Yourcenar

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A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

~Marguerite Yourcenar

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Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

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Every invalid is a prisoner.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 7th, 1903

Died: December 17th, 1987

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