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I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
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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I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by the extreme, marvelous qualities of a small minority of men. But I can't see the rest of them. They seem awful rubbish.
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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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There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped.
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There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.
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There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.
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If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.
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The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.
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music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.
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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
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It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.
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To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.
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Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.
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Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies that a city knows not whom it entertains.
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If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'
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The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.
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It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
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a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.
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