Quotes by Rebecca West

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate...

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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only...

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Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

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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...

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Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he...

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But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war...

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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between...

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of...

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither...

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

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