Marguerite Yourcenar
Born
in Brussels, Belgium
June 08, 1903
Died
December 17, 1987
Genre
Influences
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Memoirs of Hadrian
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350 editions
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published
1951
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L'Œuvre au noir
142 editions
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published
1968
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Oriental Tales
97 editions
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published
1938
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Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate
65 editions
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published
1929
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Coup de Grâce
72 editions
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published
1939
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Fires
56 editions
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published
1936
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Alexis ou le Traité du vain combat / Le Coup de grâce
23 editions
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published
1971
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Mishima ou La vision du vide
47 editions
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published
1981
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Anna, soror...
23 editions
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published
1981
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Two Lives and a Dream
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25 editions
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published
1982
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“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
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