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Olive Schreiner quotes: Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour.

Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour.

Olive Schreiner quotes: When the curtain falls no one is ready

When the curtain falls no one is ready

Olive Schreiner quotes: Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Olive Schreiner quotes: There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

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

Olive Schreiner quotes: I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

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

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

Olive Schreiner quotes: I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

Olive Schreiner quotes: Genius has no limit of sex or race.

Genius has no limit of sex or race.

Olive Schreiner quotes: Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.

Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.

Olive Schreiner quotes: 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.

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.

Olive Schreiner quotes: Soul, what have I to do with you?

Soul, what have I to do with you?

Olive Schreiner quotes: I am a man who believes nothing, hopes nothing, fears nothing, feels nothing. I am beyond the pale of humanity [ ... ]

I am a man who believes nothing, hopes nothing, fears nothing, feels nothing. I am beyond the pale of humanity [ ... ]

Olive Schreiner quotes: If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Olive Schreiner quotes: One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

Olive Schreiner quotes: God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

Olive Schreiner quotes: A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

Olive Schreiner quotes: Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

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

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

Olive Schreiner quotes: There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

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

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

Olive Schreiner quotes: We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Olive Schreiner quotes: Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Olive Schreiner quotes: The surest sign of fitness is success.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

Olive Schreiner quotes: A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea ...

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea ...

Olive Schreiner quotes: No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

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

Olive Schreiner quotes: This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with our hand.

This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with our hand.

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.

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

Olive Schreiner quotes: They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

Olive Schreiner quotes: Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Olive Schreiner quotes: Why hate, and struggle, and fight? Let is be as it would.

Why hate, and struggle, and fight? Let is be as it would.

Olive Schreiner quotes: The brain works better if the hand works too.

The brain works better if the hand works too.

Olive Schreiner quotes: There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

Olive Schreiner quotes: I am not in so great a hurry to put my neck beneath any man's foot; and I do not so greatly admire the crying of babies

I am not in so great a hurry to put my neck beneath any man's foot; and I do not so greatly admire the crying of babies

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

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

Olive Schreiner quotes: For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.