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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.
Olive Schreiner
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Olive Schreiner
Age: 65 †
Born: 1855
Born: March 24
Died: 1920
Died: December 11
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I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.
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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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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 was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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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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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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God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.
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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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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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