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Mary Renault Quotes

Mary Renault quotes

English Novelist, Writer September 4, 1905 – December 13, 1983

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The school discussed friendship often. It is, they learned, one of the things man can least afford to lack; necessary to the good life, and beautiful in itself. Between friends is no need of justice, for neither wrong nor inequality can exist... Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time." (Fire From Heaven, Page 161) Mary Renault
Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood. Mary Renault
Mary Renault quote: "One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie..."
One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk. Mary Renault
Mary Renault quote: "In hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What..."
In hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. Mary Renault
Mary Renault quote: "In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon...."
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. Mary Renault
Alexander offered him (Aristotle)a hand to mount the gangplank, andtried the effect of a smile. When the man returned it, it could be seen thatsmiling was what he would do best; he would not often be caught withhis head back laughing. But he did look like a man who would answerquestions. Mary Renault
Mary Renault quote: "It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to..."
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. Mary Renault
Mary Renault quote: "It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from..."
It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies Mary Renault
Mary Renault quote: "True friends share everything, except the past before they met."
True friends share everything, except the past before they met. Mary Renault
Mary Renault quote: "Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom."
Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom. Mary Renault
Mary Renault quote: "Money buts many things... The best of which is freedom."
Money buts many things... The best of which is freedom. Mary Renault
At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted a game, or water if he was thirsty; not by calculation, but in a constant awareness by which no smallest trifle was missed. Now, when he came down the stairs with a shut mouth and blue lines under his eyes, Hephaistion received some mute signal he understood, and fell into step beside him. Mary Renault
Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal. Mary Renault
You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets s that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now. Mary Renault
After some years of muddled thinking on the subject, he suddenly saw quite clearly what it was he had been running away from; why he had refused Sandy's first invitation, and what the trouble had been with Charles. It was also the trouble, he perceived, with nine-tenths or the people here tonight. They were specialists. They had not merely accepted their limitations, as Laurie was ready to accept his, loyal to his humanity if not to his sex, and bringing an extra humility to the hard study of... Mary Renault

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