Author: Marguerite Yourcenar

Cites

• P. Aelius Hadrianus (1)
  • IN: Memoirs of Hadrian (1951) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Animula vagula, blandula, hospes comesque corporis, quae nunc abibis in loca pallidula, bigida, nudula, nec, ut soles, dabis iocos... (Little soul, you charming little wanderer, my body's guest and partner, where are you off to now? somewhere without colour, savage and bare; You'll crack no more of your jokes once you're there.)
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, Spain
• Montaigne (1)
  • IN: A coin in nine hands (1934) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: To abandon one's life for a dream is to know its true worth.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France

Cited by

• Karine Tuil (1)
  • IN: The Age of Reinvention (2013) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Literary success represents only a small part of what I think about. Success slips through your fingers, it escapes you whichever way you turn [...] and it is my own life that is, ultimately, the most important thing.
    FROM: NULL, (1979), Conversation, France
• Yanick Lahens (1)
  • IN: Moonbath (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: [...] he destroyed this beauty that could have led me to fall into relapses of desire [...]; I resemble God's old mistress, Death.
    FROM: Fires, (1936), Book, France