Joyce Cary Quote Explained: Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

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Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

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· Ireland

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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

- Joyce Cary

Novelist

· Ireland

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul — politics does the same thing for the body.

- Joyce Cary

Novelist

· Ireland

Body
Soul

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Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

- Joyce Cary

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· Ireland

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For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

- Joyce Cary

Novelist

· Ireland

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An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.

- Joyce Cary

Novelist

· Ireland

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A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

- Joyce Cary

Novelist

· Ireland

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Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

- Joyce Cary

Novelist

· Ireland

Sea
Wise

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul — politics does the same thing for the body.

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all. Explain

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

Europe is a democracy and differences of opinion are part of it.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. Explain

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die. Explain

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

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