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Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
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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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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No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.
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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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When the curtain falls no one is ready
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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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God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.
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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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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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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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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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Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.
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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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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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Soul, what have I to do with you?
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A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.
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The surest sign of fitness is success.
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If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
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There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.
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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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