The Life Everlasting

The Life Everlasting

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The Life Everlasting by Marie Corelli

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1911

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the cheap scorn and derision of the clowns of the piece.

Yet, should this be so, I would not have it otherwise, I have never at any time striven to be one with the world, or to suit my speech pliantly to the conventional humour of the moment. I am often attacked, yet am not hurt; I am equally often praised, and am not elated. I have no time to attend to the expression of opinions, which, whether good or bad, are to me indifferent. And whatever pain I have felt or feel, in experiencing human malice, has been, and is, in the fact that human malice should exist at all,--not for its attempted wrong towards myself. For I, personally speaking, have not a moment to waste among the mere shadows of life which are not Life itself. I follow the glory,--not the gloom.

So whether you, who wander in darkness of your own making, care to come towards the little light which leads me onward, or whether you prefer to turn away from me altogether into your self-created darker depths, is not my concern. I cannot fo

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Love this book. It is one of my all time favorites since I found it as a school fete in the early 1980's. My old copy is just that and very well read...even before finding my hand. I wish I could find it in reprint.
Excellent, uplifting novel. Not to be missed by those seeking Higher wisdom of the Divine Beauty... a book on the secrets of life eternal.

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