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Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.
Rebecca West
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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
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Literary Critic
Suffragette
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London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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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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No great thing happens suddenly.
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I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.
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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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Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.
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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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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 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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All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
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A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.
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Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.
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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
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The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.
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The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.
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I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
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Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.
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Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.
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The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
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music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.
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