“ Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ”
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“ It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. ”
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“ You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is. ”
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“ Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. ”
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“ Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ”
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“ Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
“ Just how difficult it is to write a biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ”
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“ Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. ”
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“ God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. ”
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“ There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ The general tendency to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. ”
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“ But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. ”
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“ The general tendency to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted. ”
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“ It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. ”
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“ All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life. ”
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“ I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy. ”
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“ Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. ”
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