Olive Schreiner Quotes - Page 3

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• Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world: - it seems rather to enlarge it.

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  Beautiful, Together, Development

  Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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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  Writing, Looks, Paper

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.167, Courier Corporation

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• [Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .

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  Moving, School, Space

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not.Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is-the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

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  Prayer, Sunday, Loss

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• 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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  Men, Should Have, Soul

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.172, Courier Corporation

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• It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

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  Cutting, Men, Ice

  Olive Schreiner (1998). “Woman and Labor”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• The surest sign of fitness is success.

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  Olive Schreiner (2009). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.284, The Floating Press

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