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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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Suffragette
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London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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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 adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
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Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
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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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Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.
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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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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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Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
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A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.
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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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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
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I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by the extreme, marvelous qualities of a small minority of men. But I can't see the rest of them. They seem awful rubbish.
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