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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!"

— Olive Schreiner

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Description: the words of the character, Lyndall.

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It is delightful to be a woman; but every man thanks the Lord devoutly that he isn’t one.

The Story of an African Farm (1883)

“On the path to truth, at every step, you set your foot down on your own heart.”

The Story of an African Farm (1883)

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

The Story of an African Farm (1883)

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

The Story of an African Farm (1883)

“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?”

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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