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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 Quotes

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

Earth

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad. - Olive Schreiner Quotes

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Olive Schreiner

Comfort Kindness Sad

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

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

Olive Schreiner

Fools And Foolishness South African Writer

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

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

Olive Schreiner

Fools And Foolishness South African Writer

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn - Olive Schreiner Quotes

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

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I have no conscience, none, but I would not like to bring a soul into this world. When it sinned and when it suffered something like a dead hand would fall on me, -- ''You did it, you, for your own pleasure you created this thing! See your work!'' If it lived to be eighty it would always hang like a millstone round my neck, have the right to demand good from me, and curse me for its sorrow. A parent is only like to God: if his work turns out bad so much the worse for him; he dare not wash his hands of it. Time and years can never bring the day when you can say to your child, ''Soul, what have I to do with you?'' - Olive Schreiner Quotes

I have no conscience, none, but I would not like to bring a soul into this world. When it sinned and when it suffered something like a dead hand would fall on me, -- ''You did it, you, for your own pleasure you created this thing! See your work!'' If it lived to be eighty it would always hang like a millstone round my neck, have the right to demand good from me, and curse me for its sorrow. A parent is only like to God: if his work turns out bad so much the worse for him; he dare not wash his hands of it. Time and years can never bring the day when you can say to your child, ''Soul, what have I to do with you?''

Olive Schreiner

Conscience Procreation

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question,

[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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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 Quotes

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

Love Quote of the Day South African Writer

Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They 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 there -- wide room. A woman who has been for many years at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies. - Olive Schreiner Quotes

Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They 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 there -- wide room. A woman who has been for many years at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies.

Olive Schreiner

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act. - Olive Schreiner Quotes

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.

Olive Schreiner

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