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The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.
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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Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.
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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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... 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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You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
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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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The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.
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I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.
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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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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
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The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.
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Anthologies are mischievous things. Some years ago there was a rage for chemically predigested food, which was only suppressed when doctors pointed out that since human beings had been given teeth and digestive organs they had to be used or they degenerated very rapidly. Anthologies are predigested food for the brain.
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[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.
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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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If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.
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Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.
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There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped.
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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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After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.
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a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.
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A copy of the universe is not what is required of art one of the damned things is ample.
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