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This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

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This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

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About Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar (UK: , US: , French: [maʁɡ(ə)ʁit juʁsənaʁ] ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. She was nominated for the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.