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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

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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
Love
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Everyone
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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!
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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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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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... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
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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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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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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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Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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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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If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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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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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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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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When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.
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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
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