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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.

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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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Nun
Woman
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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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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.
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Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon 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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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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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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artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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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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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
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A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
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... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
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