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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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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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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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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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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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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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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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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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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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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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I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!
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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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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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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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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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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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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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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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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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