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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"
""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."
"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will."
"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
Explore more quotes by Catherine Helen Spence
"South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections."
"Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible."
"Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me."
"After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits."
"I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export."
"Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria."
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