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Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
Olive Schreiner
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Olive Schreiner
Age: 65 †
Born: 1855
Born: March 24
Died: 1920
Died: December 11
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Cape of Good Hope
Olive Emily Albertina Schreiner
Ralph Iron
Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner
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God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.
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Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
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The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little but live for one thing.
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Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.
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The surest sign of fitness is success.
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We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.
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There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
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I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.
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There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.
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A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.
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The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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