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There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.

Marie Corelli

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Marie Corelli
Age: 68 †
Born: 1855
Born: May 1
Died: 1924
Died: April 21
Novelist
Poet
Writer
London
England
Mary McKay
Mary Mackay
Seems
Transition
Grief
Death

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Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
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Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!
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One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.
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You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!
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No one is contented in 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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work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.
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in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.
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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
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Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?
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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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I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.
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Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
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It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!
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There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.
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For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.
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Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!
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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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What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.
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Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
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A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.
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