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No great thing happens suddenly.
Rebecca West
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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
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Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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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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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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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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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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... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
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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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Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.
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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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Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.
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A copy of the universe is not what is required of art one of the damned things is ample.
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Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...
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I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.
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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
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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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The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.
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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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Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies that a city knows not whom it entertains.
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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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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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