Olive Schreiner - Love Quotes

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Olive Schreiner

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.

Olive Schreiner

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.

Olive Schreiner

You can't love a man till you've had a baby with him.

Olive Schreiner

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

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Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.

Olive Schreiner