Mary Renault

Novelist

1905-09-04

Quotes by Mary Renault

• Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

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• It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

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• Is he weeping? said the one with the softest heart.

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• Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then, he was what all sculptors were reaching after, and only the great achieved.

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• Often I wished for someone to share my mind with; but their hearts were in little things, they would have thought me a dreamer, and I had to plan alone.

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• It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

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• There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

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• Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

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• It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

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• Often I wished for someone to share my mind with; but their hearts were in little things, they would have thought me a dreamer, and I had to plan alone.

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• Is he weeping? said the one with the softest heart.

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• There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

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• It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

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• Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then, he was what all sculptors were reaching after, and only the great achieved.

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• In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

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