Marie Corelli Quotes

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Absolutely disinterested love for a brilliantly endowed woman would be difficult to find in any male nature. Men love what is inferior to themselves, not superior. Thus women who are endowed with more then common intellectual ability have to choose from one of two alternatives. Love, or what is called love, and child bearing, — or fame, and lifelong loneliness.

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A pretty woman is always an object of suspicion to the plain majority — and when she adds elegant attire to the attractions of form and feature, she is still more quickly and utterly condemned.

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Every one is more or less fevered with the mania of money-making — and when the money is made they have neither the education or the intelligence to spend it properly.

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A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

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In the renewal of life and the preservation of youth, thought is the chief factor. If we think we are old, we age rapidly. If, on the contrary, we think we are young, we preserve our vitality indefinitely.

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My great grief is that the spirit of Christ does not rule the world! Christ is being re-crucified by this generation! And the church is looking on, and silently permitting his second murder!!

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Men as a rule don't like to let anyone anything or anybody have their own way except themselves!.

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Nothing does you so much good as to be hurt. You then become aware that you are somebody who other bodies envy. You never know how high you have climbed till you feel a few dirty hands behind you trying to pull you down.

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There is no more absolute truth than this — that each man and each woman must make his or her own destiny both here and hereafter.

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Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, — nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

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Fortune frequently showers her choicest gifts on the most unworthy scoundrels, male and female, that burden this earth's surface. It's odd — it's unfair, but it's true.

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'Odd' people are always infinitely diverting, owing to their never being able to recognise their own abnormal absurdity.

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Perfect happiness is the soul's acceptance of a sense of joy without question.

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I have longed and do long for fame, for wealth, for the world's applause, for all the things that you seem to think so petty and mean. How can I help it? Is not fame power? Is not money double power, strong to assist one's self and those one loves? Is not the world's favour a necessary means to gain these things?

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In my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

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An outburst of actual sincerity in society would be like a match to a gunpowder magazine — the whole thing would blow up into fragments and be dispersed to the four winds of heaven, leaving nothing but an evil odour.

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No one is contented is this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

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The beginning of my history is — love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

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Most of the heroes and heroines of history have been small and slight in build.

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Fame is capricious, and her trumpet is not loud enough to be heard all over the world at once.

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It often happens that when bags of money fall to the lot of the aspiring genius, God departs and the devil walks in.

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Though a dealer in meat, groceries, and other food stuffs may obtain compensation if his wares are wilfully misrepresented to the buying public, the purveyor of thoughts or ideas has no remedy when such thoughts or ideas are deliberately and purposefully falsified to the world through the press.

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What the fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

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The one thing that humanity never studies, and therefore fails to master, is Life!

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An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!

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She managed to grow stouter every day with a persistence and fortitude which denoted the reserved forces of her nature.

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Intellectual growth and advancement are seldom, if ever, associated with purely domestic comfort and tranquility.

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Just how to make ourselves pleasant and kind to every one for the passing hour, is as much duty as anything else in this world.

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And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.

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In this world no one, however harmless, is allowed to continue happy. Fate — or caprice — cannot endure to see us monotonously at rest. Something perfectly trivial — a look, a word, a touch, and lo! a long chain of old associations is broken asunder, and the peace we deemed so deep and lasting is finally interrupted.

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