# Quote — Henry Rider Haggard, She

> Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and this many-coloured pigment of imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them doth agree with another!

- Author: [Henry Rider Haggard](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard.md)
- Book: [She](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-rider-haggard/she.md)
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> And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance bitter memories of what might have been.

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> Yea, all things live for ever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

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> [T]hinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

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