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But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.
Mary Renault
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Mary Renault
Age: 78 †
Born: 1905
Born: September 4
Died: 1983
Died: December 13
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Eileen Mary Challans
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One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
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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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There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.
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All tragedies deal with fated meetings how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing there is death, or triumph there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.
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Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.
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I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.
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The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
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It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.
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Everything is change and you cannot step twice into the same river.
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Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
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A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
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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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Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.
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Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret -- there, I have seen is slavery.
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In all men is evil sleeping the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.
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An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.
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All men seek esteem the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.
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He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship.
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