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What is a hero without love for mankind.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Doris May Tayler
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It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.
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Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.
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So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.
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The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.
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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
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