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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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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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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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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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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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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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If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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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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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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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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