Rebecca West

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"She was like the embodiment of all women who have felt an astonished protest because their children have died before them."	Family
"She was like the embodiment of all women who have felt an astonished protest because their children have died before them."	Success, Life
"Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."	Humor
"If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time."	Philosophy
"If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time."	Wisdom
"A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere."	Philosophy
"A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere."	Wisdom
"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."	Philosophy
"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."	Wisdom
"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion."	Philosophy
"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion."	Wisdom
"[Writing] has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."	Art
"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."	Music
"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."	Art
"Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space."	Quotations
"He is every other inch a gentleman."	Men
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."	God, Truth
"There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time."	Friendship
"There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time."	Government, Friends

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