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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.
Marie Corelli
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Marie Corelli
Age: 68 †
Born: 1855
Born: May 1
Died: 1924
Died: April 21
Novelist
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London
England
Mary McKay
Mary Mackay
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Desire
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Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
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The Press nowadays is not a literary press classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.
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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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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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Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!
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I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.
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Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
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It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!
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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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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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And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace and out of desire, accomplishment.
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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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A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.
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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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in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.
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Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.
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the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!
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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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There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.
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