Olive Schreiner Quotes About Soul

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  • Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

  • A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

    The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)
  • Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

    Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.172, Courier Corporation
  • [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 . . .

    The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)
  • Soul, what have I to do with you?

    The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 6 (1883)
  • Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.

    Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.172, Courier Corporation
  • Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

    Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr
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