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- Birth nameMarguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour
- 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.
- ParentsMichel de CrayencourFernande de Cartier de Marchienne
- RelativesNoémie Dufresne(Grandparent)
- Longtime companion of Grace Frick.
- 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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