Marie Corelli Quotes

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• There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.
• 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!…
• No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the…
• If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of day for braver feet to tread…
• What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.
• Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by…
• 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…
• A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All…
• There is no wealth but love.
• 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 never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a…
• You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world…
• Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
• 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…
• I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every…
• I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she…

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