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Famous Rebecca West Quotes
“It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.”
“Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.”
“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.”
“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”
“International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.”
“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.”
“Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.”
“Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”
“God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.”
“Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.”
“A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.”
“But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.”
“Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.”
“Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.”
“I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.”
“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”
“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”
“There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.”