"There is only one kind of shock worse……" — Mary Renault
"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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Mary Renault
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29 Quotes by Mary Renault
Mary Renault has 29 quotes on this site.
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It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.
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In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in…
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Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
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One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at…
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We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
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Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis;…
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Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.
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It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.
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It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies
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Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives…
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Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
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Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
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