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The adventure is over. Everyth...

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.

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It is a great pity that every ...

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

Rebecca West 246 quotes

Women know the damnation of ch...

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Rebecca West 246 quotes

Charity is an ugly trick. It i...

Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere revolt against the present social system, it is a cheap moral swagger. In former times it was used as fire insurance by the rich, but now that the fear of Hell has gone along with the rest of revealed religion, it is used either to gild mean lives with nobility or as a political instrument.

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There is in every one of us an...

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

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I find to my astonishment that...

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

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Getting a divorce is nearly al...

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

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Those who foresee the future a...

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

Rebecca West 246 quotes

In England and America a beard...

In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

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There is no such thing as conv...

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

Rebecca West 246 quotes

Were it possible for us to wai...

Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.

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Any writer worth his salt know...

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read.

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It isn't only living people wh...

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

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works of art feel towards huma...

works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously.

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I had come to Yugoslavia to se...

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

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If the whole human race lay in...

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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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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the reward for total abstinenc...

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

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[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkennes...

[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.

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Anthologies are mischievous th...

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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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....