Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Rebecca West quotes, Rebecca West sayings, and Rebecca West proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.Rebecca West
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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.Rebecca West
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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.Rebecca West
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Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.Rebecca West
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Journalism an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.Rebecca West
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Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.Rebecca West
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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.Rebecca West
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the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.Rebecca West
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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.Rebecca West
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Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.Rebecca West
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His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth .Rebecca West
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. Rebecca West
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Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.Rebecca West
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Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.Rebecca West
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The bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.Rebecca West
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.Rebecca West
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Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.Rebecca West
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There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.Rebecca West
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It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.Rebecca West
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All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.Rebecca West
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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.Rebecca West
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People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. Rebecca West
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“[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”Rebecca West
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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. Rebecca West
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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.Rebecca West
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Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.Rebecca West
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It is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.Rebecca West