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Very tenderly the old man looked at him. He saw not the bloated body nor the evil face of the man; but, as it were, under deep disguise and fleshly concealment, the form that long years of dreaming had made very real to him.

— Olive Schreiner The Story of an African Farm (1883)

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

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

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

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

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“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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