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Olive Schreiner

Everything has two sides – the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

– Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

– Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

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Olive Schreiner

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

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Olive Schreiner

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well… than to kill ten thousand.

– Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don’t see it – but there is.

– Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

– Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse’s knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

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Fear Olive Schreiner

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

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Dreams Olive Schreiner

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

– Olive Schreiner

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