# Quote — Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm

> “I have sought,” he said, “for long years I have laboured; but I have not found her. I have not rested, I have not repined, and I have not seen her; now my strength is gone. Where I lie down worn out other men will stand, young and fresh. By the steps that I have cut they will climb; by the stairs that I have built they will mount. They will never know the name of the man who made them. At the clumsy work they will laugh; when the stones roll they will curse me. But they will mount, and on my work; they will climb, and by my stair! They will find her, and through me! And no man liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself.”

- Author: [Olive Schreiner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner.md)
- Book: [The Story of an African Farm](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm/i-have-sought

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> “On the path to truth, at every step, you set your foot down on your own heart.”

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> “If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?”

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> We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

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