Olive Schreiner Quotes
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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.
Olive Schreiner
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Author Details:
Type:
Writer Quotes
Category:
South African Writer Quotes
Date of Birth:
March 24, 1855
Date of Death:
December 11, 1920
Nationality:
South African
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Related Authors:
Napoleon Hill
Ayn Rand
Dale Carnegie
Jonathan Swift
Thomas Paine
Anne Frank
Voltaire
Jane Austen
Niccolo Machiavelli
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