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Marie Corelli
May 1, 1855 - April 21, 1924
Nationality: British
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: British Novelist

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

   

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

   

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

   

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

   

I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.

   

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

   

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

   

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