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And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace and out of desire, accomplishment.

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
Comes
Heart
Accomplishment
Peace
Pain
Desire

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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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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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... though a dealer in meat, groceries, and other food stuffs may obtain compensation if his wares are wilfully misrepresented to the buying public, the purveyor of thoughts or ideas has no remedy when such thoughts or ideas are deliberately and purposefully falsified to the world through the press.
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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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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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There is no wealth but love.
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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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It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!
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How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!
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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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Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
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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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There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.
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What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?
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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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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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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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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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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
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