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God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

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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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Together
Men
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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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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 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 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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There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.
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It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.
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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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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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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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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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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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When the curtain falls no one is ready
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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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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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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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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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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin but there is always the scent of a god about it.
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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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The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little but live for one thing.
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