The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
Mary RenaultTo hate excellence is to hate the gods.
Mary RenaultStichwörter: excellence
It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies
Mary RenaultStichwörter: pg46
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.
Mary RenaultStichwörter: inspiration history
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 human experience. They had identified themselves with their limitations; they were making a career of them. They had turned from all other reality, and curled up in them snugly, as in a womb.
Mary RenaultStichwörter: lgbt lgbtq-community
He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support.
Mary RenaultYou 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 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 RenaultStichwörter: perseverance
True friends share everything, except the past before they met.
Mary RenaultIn hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
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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.
Mary RenaultStichwörter: action maturity manhood
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