(1903–1987)
Belgian-born French novelist“He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandons himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.”
more infosource: Memoirs of Hadrian (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), 71.
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category: character, decision, life, turning point
medium: fiction
notes: quoted by Mary Karr in her Twitter feed
Marguerite Yourcenar