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Thelma

by Marie Corelli

Marie Corelli 1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924) was a British novelist. She enjoyed a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I. Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contem

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“Without her, the world was empty — its ambition, its pride, its good, its evil, seemed but the dreariest and most foolish trifles!”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Women, feminism, women make the world better

“Excess of happiness must always end in sorrow.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Sorrow, excess happiness

“I do not think wealth is needful to make one happy. But love — ah! I could not live without it . . .”

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Tagged: Love, Wealth, love vs. wealth, In love, deeply in love

“Many people desired to be something they are not . . . She was, without knowing it, such an adept in society humbug, that she even humbugged herself. She betrayed herself as she betrayed others, and told little soothing lies to her own conscience as she told them to her friends.”

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Tagged: Society, Humbug, humbug of society, Modern Society, society today

“Matchless beauty! . . . Will you not pardon my crime, if crime it be — the crime of loving you? For I do love you! Heaven only knows how utterly and desperately.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, In love, deeply in love, Infatuation, Expressing Love

“Truth is truth, however much you may wish to blind your eyes to its manifestations.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Truth, Truth Prevails, truth hurts, True, Reality

“When you hold a flower in your hand for a long time, 'till all its fragrance has gone, and you drop it because it no longer smells sweetly — you are not to blame — it is natural you should wish to have something fresh and fragrant, it is the flower's fault because it could not keep its scent long en…”

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Tagged: Love, Attraction, love affairs, Blame, breakup

“I always want you. I am never happy without you.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Pick Up Lines, In love, deeply in love, sweet

“If those men are ignorant, why should they have a share in so important a thing as Government? They may know all about beer, and wool, and iron — but perhaps they can only judge what is good for themselves, not what is best for the whole country, with all its rich and poor. I do not think that only…”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Politics, Government, Politicians, Ruling, rule of the government

“She is innocent too — like a baby — and she worships her husband. That is an error! To worship a man is a great mistake — she will find it so. Men are not to be too much loved — no, no.”

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Tagged: feminism, Gender Equality, Husband and Wife, Partners, Couples

“How often must I tell you! I do think you will never tire of hearing! You know that it is you for whom I care most, and that all the world would be empty to me without you! Oh . . . my darling! Do not make me try to tell you how much I love you! I cannot — my heart is too full!”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, In love, Loving Deeply, Expressing Love

“Children who have trifled with and lost everything — love, honour, hope, and faith — and who are travelling rapidly to the grave with no consolation save a few handfuls of base coins, which they must, perforce, leave behind them at the last.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Materialism, Materialistic, materialistic society, society today, Society

“For God's justice, is as a circle that slowly surrounds an evil and as slowly closes in it with crushing and resistless force — and feverish, fretting humanity, however nobly inspired, can do nothing either to hasten or retard the round, perfect, absolute, and Divine Law.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

Tagged: God, Spirituality, religiosity, God's justice, divine law

“Modern society contains within itself the seed of its own destruction.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Society, Modern Society, society today, Destruction, societal standards

“You do not know — how should you? What I think of you! Satisfied? Pleased? Good Heavens — what little words those are to express my feeling! I can tell you how you look, for nothing can ever make you vain. You are beautiful! . . . You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, and you look your…”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, In love, entranced, sweet, beauty

“Life assumed for him a new form . . . it was no longer, as he had once been inclined to think, a mere empty routine — it was a treasure of inestimable value fraught with divine meanings. Gradually, the touch of modern cynicism that had at one time threatened to spoil his nature, dropped away from hi…”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, living with love, Married Life, Marriage, couple

“But there must be a certain pleasure in it while you're alive to enjoy it.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, enjoy life, Living Fully, live to the fullest, Living

“Marriage had for once fulfilled its real and sacred meaning — it had set Love free from restraint, and had opened all gateways of the only earthly paradise human hearts shall ever know — the paradise of perfect union and absolute sympathy with the one thing beloved on this side eternity.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Marriage, Married Life, Love, Making Love, union of partners

“Your eyes are looking at the sky, Thelma. Do you know what that is? Heaven looking into heaven! And do you know which of the two heavens I prefer?”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Pick Up Lines, Flirting, Flirting Lines, Expressing Love

“'But the people choose their own rulers,' remarked Errington reflectively. 'Ah, the poor people!' sighed Thelma. 'They know so very little, and they are taught so badly! I think they never do quite understand what they do want — they are the same in all histories — like little children, they get bew…”

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Tagged: educational system, system, societal system, Society, Politics