"Years should be nothing to you. Who asked……" — Marie Corelli
"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 seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!"
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Marie Corelli
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16 Quotes by Marie Corelli
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There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.
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Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in…
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No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing…
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If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of day…
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What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.
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The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would…
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A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and…
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There is no wealth but love.
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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…
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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as…
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You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful…
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Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
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