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Marguerite Yourcenar
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Born
June 8
,
1903
·
Brussels, Belgium
Died
December 17
,
1987
·
Mount Desert Island, Maine, USA
Birth name
Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour
Mini Bio
Marguerite Yourcenar was born on June 8, 1903 in Brussels, Belgium. She was a writer, known for
Coup de Grâce (1976)
,
Memoirs of Hadrian
and
L'oeuvre au noir (1988)
. She died on December 17, 1987 in Mount Desert Island, Maine, USA.
Family
Parents
Michel de Crayencour
Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne
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Noémie Dufresne
(Grandparent)
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Longtime companion of Grace Frick.
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Leisure moments: each life well regulated has some such intervals, and he who cannot make way for them does not know how to live.
It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present.
There is more than one kind of wisdom, and all are essential in the world; it is not bad that they should alternate.
The world is big ... May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.
Passion satisfied has its innocence, almost as fragile as any other.
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