It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.
I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted. - Mary Stewart
I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.
- Mary Stewart
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will. - Mary Stewart
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening a… - Mary Stewart
To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening a…
The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings. - Mary Stewart
The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.
Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it. - Mary Stewart
Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.
It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes. - Mary Stewart
It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.
The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage. - Mary Stewart
The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try - Mary Stewart
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. - Mary Stewart
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
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