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MARGUERITE YOURCENAR ~ KNOWING YOURSELF
9 June 2011
“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.”
Marguerite Yourcenar (Memoirs of Hadrian)
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