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“Wenigstens eine kleine Weile lang mußte ich, jedem Anspruch entrückt, in Frieden mit mir selbst sprechen können, ohne daß irgendjemand mich dabei unterbrach.”
― Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
― Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
“why am I so alone, so hard, so cold? I am so weary of myself! It is eating my soul to its core,--self, self, self! I cannot bear this life! I cannot breathe, I cannot live! Will nothing free me from myself?' She pressed her cheek agains the wooden post. 'I want to love! I want something great and pure to lift me to itself! Dear old man, I cannot bear it any more! I am so cold, so hard, so hard; will no one help me!”
― The Story of an African Farm
― The Story of an African Farm
“For a little sould that cries oout aloud for continued personal existence for itseld and its beloved, there is no help. For the sould which know itself no more as a unit, but as part of the Universal Unit of which the Beloved also is part; which feels within itself the throb of the Universal Life; for that soul there is not death.”
― The Story of an African Farm
― The Story of an African Farm
“Seine Fremdheit, Einsamkeit und Gefährung weckte nicht nur etwas wie Mitleid in mir, sie war mir unterhalb oder oberhalb des Rationalen verständlich, weil sie als Ahnung und Möglichkeit auch in mir vorhanden war. Ich war freilich ein ganz anderes Temperament als er, wechselnder, beweglicher, munterer, auch zu Geselligkeit und Spiel geneigter, aber Einsamkeit und sichfremdwissen unter den anderen waren auch mir wohlbekannt. Jenes Stehen am Rande der Welt, an jener Grenze des Lebens, jene Verlorenheit und jenes Starren ins Nichts oder Jenseits, die zu [seinem] Wesen zu gehören und seine dauernde Haltung zu sein schienen, sie hatten für Stunden oder Augenblicke auch mir das Leben fragwürdig gemacht und den Spaß daran verdorben.”
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“There is something the child sees that he does not see; something the child hears that he does not hear; and this something is the most important thing of all. Because he does not understand it, his understanding is more childish than the child's and more simple than simplicity itself; in spite of the many clever wrinkles on his parchment face, and the masterly play of his fingers in unravelling the knots.”
― On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
― On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
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