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A Coin in Nine Hands

A Coin in Nine Hands
Marguerite YourcenarOriginal title Denier du rêve (French, 1934)

A Coin in Nine Hands is a 1934 novel by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar. A reworked edition was published in 1959.


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“The unfortunate thing is that, because wishes sometimes come true, the agony of hoping is perpetuated.”

Marguerite Yourcenar book A Coin in Nine Hands

Le malheur est que, parfois, des souhaits s'accomplissent, afin que se perpétue le supplice de l'espérance.
Denier du rêve (1934), translated as A Coin in Nine Hands (1994) by Dori Katz, Ch. 3, p. 31 ISBN 0-226-96527-9

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