Phyllis Bottome - Human Quotes

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Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

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I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?'

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Nothing ever really sets human nature free, but self-control.

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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

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Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked — past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing — into the want and emptiness within!

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With courage a human being is safe enough. And without it — he is never for one instant safe!

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