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When the curtain falls no one is ready
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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There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
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[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human being can be crushed? I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .
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Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.
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Soul, what have I to do with you?
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I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.
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Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
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We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.
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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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There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
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There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.
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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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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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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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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.
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Men are like the earth and we are the moon we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
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Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.
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There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.
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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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One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.
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