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All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
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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The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
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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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... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.
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I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.
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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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Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
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He is every other inch a gentleman.
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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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the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.
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A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.
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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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sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.
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Good God enlighten us! Which of these two belongs to the sterner sex - the man who sits in Whitehall all his life on a comfortable salary, or the woman who has to keep her teeth bared lest she has her meatless bone of 17s. 4d. a week snatched away from her and who has to produce the next generation on her off-days?
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It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.
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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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If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.
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