"But there are other things than dissipation that……" — Rebecca West
"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."
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85 Quotes by Rebecca West
Rebecca West has 85 quotes on this site.
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Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical…
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The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to…
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Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather…
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Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless…
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There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
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Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them…
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
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All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to…
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Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
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For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up…
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More Dissipation Quotes
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Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is…
— Henry David Thoreau
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You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of…
— Walter Russell
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Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too…
— Cyril Connolly
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Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of…
— Edward Bellamy
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
— Margaret Deland
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The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation
— Fanny Burney
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Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for…
— Meher Baba
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to…
— Sven Birkerts
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You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as…
— Adrian Rogers
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Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and…
— Daniel Pinchbeck
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