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> [It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/it-costs-so-much-to-be-a-full-human-being-that-there-are-very-few-who/)

[Morris West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-west/)

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## More by Morris West

> [“History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/history-is-alwys-written-by-victors-and-the-defeated-create-a-new-set/)

[Morris West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-west/)

> [It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/it-costs-so-much-to-be-a-full-human-being-that-there-are-very-few-who/)

[Morris West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-west/)

> [I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/i-look-out-of-this-window-and-i-think-this-is-a-cosmos-this-is-a-huge/)

[Morris West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-west/)

> [The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/the-fact-is-that-the-learning-process-goes-on-and-so-long-as-the/)

[Morris West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-west/)

> [“I know what you are thinking - you need a sign. What better one could I give than to make this little one whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/i-know-what-you-are-thinking-you-need-a-sign-what-better-one-could-i/)

[Morris West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-west/)

> [“The truth ? the truth my dear Ashely is a luxury available only to those who are not involved in its consequences ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/the-truth-the-truth-my-dear-ashely-is-a-luxury-available-only-to/)

[Morris West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-west/)

> [In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/in-a-longish-life-as-a-professional-writer-i-have-heard-a-thousand/)

[Morris West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-west/)

> [There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/there-are-still-things-i-want-to-do-but-they-re-not-necessary-for-me/)

[Morris West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-west/)

> [No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/no-man-prince-peasant-pope-has-all-the-light-who-says-else-is-a/)

[Morris West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-west/)

> [One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/one-has-to-accept-pain-as-a-condition-of-existence-one-has-to-court/)

[Morris West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-west/)

> [If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/if-god-be-god-and-man-a-creature-made-in-image-of-the-divine/)

[Morris West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-west/)

> [I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/i-look-out-this-window-and-think-this-is-a-cosmos-this-is-a-huge/)

[Morris West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-west/)

> [You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/you-know-one-of-the-causes-of-modern-despair-is-the-fact-that-we-have/)

[Morris West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-west/)

> [You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/you-are-also-caught-with-the-fact-that-man-is-a-creature-who-walks-in/)

[Morris West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-west/)

> [None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-west/none-of-us-is-guaranteed-against-failure-or-corruption-of-any-kind/)

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