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Marguerite Yourcenar

"Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself."

Marguerite Yourcenar, American Novelist
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"Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself."

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

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"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist
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