Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar

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