• 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: 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 (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar