"Only those who still have hope can benefit…" — Nathanael West
"Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears."
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22 Quotes by Nathanael West
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Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.
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No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently…
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Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
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Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I…
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Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.
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Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative…
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Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?
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Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.
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Numbers constitute the only universal language.
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It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results…
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But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is…
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At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal…
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