Marguerite Yourcenar

On n'est bien que libre, et cacher ses opinions est encore plus gênant que de couvrir sa peau. (La conversation à Innsbruck) ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#opinion #freedom

On n'est pas libre tant qu'on désire, qu'on veut, qu'on craint, peut-être tant qu'on vit. (L'abîme) ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#freedom

Every invalid is a prisoner. ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#invalid #prisoner

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

#bores #family #getting #hand #his

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. ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#attach #care #cult #goddess #herself

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

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#easily #i #lie #more #never