Irish - Author | December 21, 1892 - March 15, 1983
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.
Rebecca West
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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
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He is every other inch a gentleman.
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Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
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All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
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A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
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It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
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Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.
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