Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

At this period of his existence, meat and blood, entrails, and all that had ever lived and breathed disgusted him as food, for an animal dies in pain just as man does, and it repelled him to be digesting death's agony.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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• At this period of his existence, meat and blood, entrails, and all that had ever lived and breathed disgusted him as food, for an animal dies in pain just as man does, and it repelled him to be digesting death's agony.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Death
  • Food
  • Pain