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Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.

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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Suffragette
Writer
London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dimly
Sleep
Reason
Thing

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one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.
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There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.
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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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It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.
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In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
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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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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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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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music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.
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the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.
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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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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
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You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
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The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.
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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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