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You can't love a man till you've had a baby with him.
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There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
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It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.
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We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed!... We pay the first cost on all human life.
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Greatness is to take the common things of life, and walk truly among them.
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There is a love that begins in the head, and goes down to the heart, and grows slowly; but it lasts till death, and asks less than it gives. There is another love, that blots out wisdom, that is sweet with the sweetness of life and bitter with the bitterness of death, lasting for an hour; but it is worth having lived a whole life for that hour.
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The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.
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A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purified, and brought into use again.
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Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world: — it seems rather to enlarge it.
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If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
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No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.
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I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.
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I said to God, 'What are they doing?'
God said, 'Making pitfalls into which their fellows may sink.'
I said to God, 'Why do they do it?'
God said, 'Because each thinks that when his brother falls he will rise.'
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For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
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There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.
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The secret of success is concentration, wherever there has been a great life, or a great work, that has gone before. Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.
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God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.'
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One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour.
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There never was a man who said one word for woman but he said two for man and three for the whole human race.
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We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.
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Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.
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Born:
March 24, 1855
Died:
December 11, 1920
(aged 65)
Bio:
Olive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual.
Known for:
The Story of an African Farm (1883)
Woman and Labour (1911)
Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897)
Dream life and real life (1893)
Thoughts on South Africa
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