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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.
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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I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.
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When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.
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All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
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