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There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed.

— H. Rider Haggard

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We white people think that we know everything.

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There is no such thing as magic, though there is such a thing as a knowledge of the secrets of nature.

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Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

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It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

The Holy Flower (1915)

After all, dangers are everywhere; those who turn back because of dangers will never succeed in any life that we can imagine.

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