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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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England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.
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Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.
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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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He is every other inch a gentleman.
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Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.
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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.
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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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The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.
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A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.
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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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When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.
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All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
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I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
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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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When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.
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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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