The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by … - Marguerite Yourcenar

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Every once in a while I'll say something. . . I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip. One of them looked at me and shook her head, like "Don't do that. " I think she was doing it to say, "It doesn't work. " She didn't say anything but it was this cautionary moment. I knew it didn't work. There are just so many other words to choose from.

Marguerite Yourcenar

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead.

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I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

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Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

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age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.

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