Marguerite Yourcenar

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.

Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.

Morals are a matter of private agreement decency is of public concern.

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

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music which is architecture too though invisible.

Every invalid is a prisoner.

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.