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Olive Schreiner [1855-1920] South African

Rank: 101
Writer, Author

Olive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm which has been highly acclaimed since its first publication in 1883 for the bold manner in which it deals with some of the burning issues of the day, including agnosticism, existential independence, individualism, the professional aspirations of women, and the elemental nature of life on the colonial frontier.

Dreams, Fear, God, Love

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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.	God, Love	101
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.	Fear	102
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.		103
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.		104
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.	Dreams	105
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.		106
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.		107
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.		108
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.		109
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.		110

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