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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
Phyllis Bottome
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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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if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.
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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
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Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
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... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!
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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.
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She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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There is no thermometer for wants!
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it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.
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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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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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Truth is its own defense.
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