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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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Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
Opinion
Fear
Others
Power
Different
Mind
Persecution
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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
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Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.
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I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?
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