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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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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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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left 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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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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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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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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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 red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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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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If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.
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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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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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There is no thermometer for wants!
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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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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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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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It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.
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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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