Quotes by Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, “Into how little space a human being can be crushed?” I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .

Moving

School

Space

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.

Children

Ideas

People

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.

Children

Ideas

Looks

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

Century

May

Use

Everything has two sides – the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

Reality

Ridiculous

Two Sides

God said, ‘When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

Light

Men

Perfect

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn’t any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

Beautiful

Music

Wish

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?

Bird

Doors

Sugar

It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

Cutting

Ice

Men

Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world: – it seems rather to enlarge it.

Beautiful

Development

Together

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Beautiful

Bird

Bitter

Blood

Brain

Century

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Curse

Cutting

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Doors

Dream

Father

Fathers Day

Fear

Feelings

Flower

Form

Friendship

Gone

Gun

Hands

Heart

Humanity

Hurt

Ice

Ideas

Ignorance

Inspirational

Jew

Kindness

Light

Littles

Loneliness

Looks

Love

May

Men

Mom

Mother

Moving

Music

People

Perfect

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Quotes by Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, “Into how little space a human being can be crushed?” I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

Everything has two sides – the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

God said, ‘When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn’t any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

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?

Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world: – it seems rather to enlarge it.

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