Ethel M. Dell quotes
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“Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.”
-- Ethel M. DellSource : Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.302, tredition
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“there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.”
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“There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else.”
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“Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.”
-- Ethel M. DellSource : Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.73, tredition
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“Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.”
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“People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.”
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“What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new ...”
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“I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.”
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“we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.”
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“I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.”
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“What we once fling away never comes again to us.”
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“That's the worst of doctors. They are so keen about the body, but they don't study the soul at all.”
-- Ethel M. DellSource : Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.296, tredition
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“If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.”
-- Ethel M. Dell
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