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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
Rebecca West
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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
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England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
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... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.
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... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.
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I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.
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The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.
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I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.
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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
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A copy of the universe is not what is required of art one of the damned things is ample.
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Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.
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Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.
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I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
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