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“History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.”

Quote by Rebecca West

Book:Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

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Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

This book offers a personal account of the author's travels across Yugoslavia, detailing the landscapes, cultures, and historical sites encountered during the journey. more

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Rebecca West, born Cecil William James on December 21, 1892, and died on March 15, 1983, was a prominent British author of the 20th century. Known for her profound social insight and unique literary style, she left a lasting impact on the world of literature. more

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“Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.”

Real Home Personality Drama Conflict Areas Exciting Active Concentration Objections Housework Domesticity

Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework.”

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Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.”

Form Quality Moral Intellectual Labor Visible Rabbits Suitable Housework Quickness

Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“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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Book:The Judge

Source: The Judge

“There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.”

Kind Two Bloody Imperialism

Book:The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17

Source: The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17

“I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.”

Problem Justice Steps Failing Obligation Mutual Trusted Honored Legal System

Book:Woman as Artist and Thinker

Source: Woman as Artist and Thinker

“The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.”

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Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.”

Men Stills Feelings Problem Used Language Cat Relation Foundation Instinct Lips Sentences Architecture Readiness Climax

Book:The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews

Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews

“the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.”

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Book:The meaning of treason

Source: The meaning of treason

“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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Book:The New Meaning of Treason

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