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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.
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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To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not to go to church or not to say his prayers right or not to travel on a Sunday or not.Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is-the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles if a plain, she levels eighty if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end our skies are higher and more intensely blue our waves larger than others our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.
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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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[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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God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.
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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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