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Category: Mary Renault

People like me are blamed for curiosity; having lost part of our lives, we are apt to fill the gap from the lives of others. In this I am like the rest, and make no pretences.

curiosity, loss

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

destiny, fate, grief, universe

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.

friendship, loneliness, partnership, relationships, theseus

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.

history, inspiration

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

ancient-greece, kings, pittheus, power, troizen

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

gods, power, theseus

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

compassion, cry, heart, kindness, love, sadness, soft, weeping

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

shock, truth, unexpected

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

alexander-the-great, genius, imagination, visionary

People like me are blamed for curiosity; having lost part of our lives, we are apt to fill the gap from the lives of others. In this I am like the rest, and make no pretences.

curiosity, loss

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

destiny, fate, grief, universe

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

gods, power, theseus