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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.

Marie Corelli

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Marie Corelli
Age: 68 †
Born: 1855
Born: May 1
Died: 1924
Died: April 21
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London
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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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Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
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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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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
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in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.
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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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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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What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.
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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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