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The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
Rebecca West
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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
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London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
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He is every other inch a gentleman.
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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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music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.
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I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.
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