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Olive Schreiner Quotes about Love

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There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

Olive Schreiner
Love, Reality, Two
Olive Schreiner (1986). “The Woman's Rose: Stories and Allegories”, Ad Donker Publishers

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
Love, Flower, Blood
Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.208, Courier Corporation

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

Olive Schreiner
Love, Father, Two
Olive Schreiner (1973). “A track to the water's edge: the Olive Schreiner reader”, HarperCollins Publishers

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