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Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.
Rebecca West
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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
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Journalist
Literary Critic
Suffragette
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London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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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 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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Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.
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I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.
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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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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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A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.
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Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.
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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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Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.
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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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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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But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
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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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She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.
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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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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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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
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Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
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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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