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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

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Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
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death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.
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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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All persecution is a sign of fear for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.
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