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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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it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.
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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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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated he forgets truths which are too simple.
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Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.
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