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Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.
Rebecca West
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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
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London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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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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the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.
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If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.
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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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I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
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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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Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.
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All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.
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Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.
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music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
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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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The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
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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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It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.
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domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.
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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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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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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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