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• I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

  Marie Corelli

  Thinking, Feelings, Speak

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• Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.

  Marie Corelli

  Spiritual, Sight, Imagination

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• There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

  Marie Corelli

  Depressing, Self, World

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• nobody ever intends to be old.

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  Age, Old Age

  Marie Corelli (19??). “Jane: A Social Incident”, p.27, Health Research Books

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• One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.

  Marie Corelli

  Compassion, Way, Modern

  Marie Corelli (2015). “Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact”, p.348, The Floating Press

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• It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!

  Marie Corelli

  Winning, Difficult

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• For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.

  Marie Corelli

  Reading, Matter, Term

  Marie Corelli (1972). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”, p.8, Health Research Books

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• work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.

  Marie Corelli

  Work

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• Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.

  Marie Corelli

  Animal, Giving, Special

  Marie Corelli (2016). “Innocent”, p.391, Marie Corelli

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• the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!

  Marie Corelli

  Clever, Men, Secret

  Marie Corelli (2015). “Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact”, p.366, The Floating Press

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• the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

  Marie Corelli

  Men, Enough, Frank

  Marie Corelli (2004). “Wormwood: A Drama of Paris”, p.78, Broadview Press

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• in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

  Marie Corelli

  Men, Spirituality, Opinion

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.155, The Floating Press

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• Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

  Marie Corelli

  Education, Successful, Chance

  Marie Corelli (1971). “A Romance of Two Worlds”, p.294, Health Research Books

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• Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

  Marie Corelli

  Mean, Mad, World

  "Wormwood: A Drama of Paris".

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• Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church?

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  Strong, Hate, Men

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.496, The Floating Press

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• The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

  Marie Corelli

  Fate, Thinking, Two

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• A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

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  Hypocrisy, Criminals, Add

  Marie Corelli (1972). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”, p.69, Health Research Books

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• Art is sexless; - good work is eternal, no matter whether it is man or woman who has accomplished it. ... Ah, but the world will never own woman's work to be great even if it be so, because men give the verdict, and man's praise is for himself and his own achievements always.

  Marie Corelli

  Art, Men, Giving

  Marie Corelli (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Marie Corelli (Illustrated)”, p.5134, Delphi Classics

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• A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

  Marie Corelli

  Morning, Hunting, Bird

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• Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

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  Country, War, Men

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• Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

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  Summer, Sunshine, Two

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• religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

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  Poetry, Poetry Is

  Marie Corelli (2004). “Wormwood: A Drama of Paris”, p.104, Broadview Press

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• If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.

  Marie Corelli

  Feet, Clay, Used

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• The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

  Marie Corelli

  Mean, Style, Diction

  Marie Corelli (1972). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”, p.304, Health Research Books

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• it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

  Marie Corelli

  Life, Silly, Special

  Marie Corelli (2016). “Innocent”, p.189, Marie Corelli

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