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Rebecca West

Only part of us is sane: only...

Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.

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Rebecca West

Unfortunately, all gatherings...

Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.

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Rebecca West

If the whole human race lay i...

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

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Rebecca West

Whatever happens, never forge...

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

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Rebecca West

I really write to find out wh...

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

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Rebecca West

Christianity must be regarded...

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

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Rebecca West

The general tendency [is] to ...

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

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Rebecca West

art is at least in part a way...

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

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Rebecca West

We think in youth that our bo...

We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits.

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Rebecca West

To make laws is a human insti...

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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Rebecca West

... when the Spaniards persec...

... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients.

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Rebecca West

The mind is its own enemy, th...

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

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Rebecca West

Why must you always try to be...

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

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Rebecca West

Nobody ever wrote a good book...

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

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Rebecca West

The world is round and the pl...

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

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Rebecca West

A good cause has to be carefu...

A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.

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Rebecca West

The day was so delightful tha...

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

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Rebecca West

There is, of course, no reaso...

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.

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Rebecca West

Marriage had certain commerci...

Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.

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Rebecca West

The principle of avoiding the...

The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.

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