“she repaid us by giving life the quality that but for her was only to be found in music ” — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention;… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
One perceives that again and again she has destroyed her life when it was forming into shapes of happiness because of her… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“I am writing all this down in full knowledge that it will not now seem important, for the reason that that is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“It was his hopeless hope that some time he would have an experience that would act on his life like alchemy, turning… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. The artist says, 'I will make that event happen… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“A great empire cannot bring freedom by its own decay to those corners in it where a subject people are prevented from… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“I hate the corpses of empires, they stink as nothing else. They stink so badly that I cannot believe that even in… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano.” — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“At the top of a hill our automobile stuck in a snowdrift. Peasants ran out of a cottage near by, shouting with laughter because… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world... — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
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