"Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous,……" — Rebecca West
"Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle."
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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 Existence Quotes
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
— Hannah Arendt
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
— Aristotle
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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
— Aristotle
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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of…
— David Attenborough
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
— David Bailey
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him.…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
— Henry Adams
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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
— Charles Baudelaire
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