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music is a missionary effort ...

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

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My memory is certainly in my ...

My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.

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whatever a work of art may be...

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

Rebecca West 246 quotes

Neurotics, who cause less dis...

Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.

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To those who fall and hurt th...

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

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Reason's a thing we dimly see...

Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.

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The word 'idiot' comes from a...

The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.

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The delight we find in art am...

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

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... there has never been a pe...

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

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A child is an adult temporari...

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

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It is sometimes very hard to t...

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

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Writing has nothing to do with...

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

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A strong hatred is the best la...

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

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The main difference between me...

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

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Before a war military science ...

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.

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Great music is in a sense sere...

Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.

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Life ought to be a struggle of...

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

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Motherhood is the strangest th...

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

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There is no logical reason why...

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Rebecca West 246 quotes

International relationships ar...

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Rebecca West 246 quotes

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