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We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Olive Schreiner

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Olive Schreiner
Age: 65 †
Born: 1855
Born: March 24
Died: 1920
Died: December 11
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Writer
Cape of Good Hope
Olive Emily Albertina Schreiner
Ralph Iron
Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner
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Feelings
Never
Thinking
World
Blinded
Seen

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Soul, what have I to do with you?
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God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.
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No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man she knows the history of human flesh she knows its cost he does not.
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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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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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Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.
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We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.
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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
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