Marguerite Yourcenar said this quote

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

Le souvenir n'est qu'un regard posé de temps en temps sur des êtres devenus intérieurs,mais qui ne dépendent pas de la mémoire pour continuer d'exister.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it, the slightest excess corrupts it, the slightest vulgarity defiles it.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar