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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

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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
Hunted
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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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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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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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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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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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... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
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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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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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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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