“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar, book Memoirs of Hadrian

Le véritable lieu de naissance est celui où l'on a porté pour la première fois un coup d'oeil intelligent sur soi-même: mes premières patries ont été des livres.
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), p. 33

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