Vanessa Cerretti

“the lover who leaves reason in control does not follow his god to the end.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie”
― Marguerite Yourcenar

“Se, per miracolo, qualche secolo venisse aggiunto ai pochi giorni che mi restano, rifarei le stesse cose, persino gli stessi errori, frequenterei gli stessi Olimpi e i medesimi Inferi.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian