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The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.
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After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.
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Siegried Sassoon's book is a true work of art. It is an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity that excites the reader.
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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 with painful sacrifices.
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He does not so much split his infinitives as disembowel them.
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She's a real woman, the kind that can't look after herself.
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Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids, so South Africa seems the setting of that warm, attractive, aggressive personality. Her work is far inferior to her.
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A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.
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To him boredom was a tragedy, for he had no more realization than if he had been an animal that any state he was in would ever come to an end.
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For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
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Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.
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The general tendency to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.
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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
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Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.
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The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.
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I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.
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I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.
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He belonged to the vast order of human beings who cannot be loyal to their beloved if a stranger jeers.
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The reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.
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It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.
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Which is it, I wonder, do I talk too much or does it merely seem to people that I talk too much? And which of those alternatives is the most disagreeable?
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Every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.
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Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.
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I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that is it too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.
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Rebecca West
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Born:
December 21, 1892
Died:
March 15, 1983
(aged 90)
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Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield, known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer.
Known for:
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941)
The Return of the Soldier (1918)
The Fountain Overflows (1956)
A Train of Powder (1955)
Meaning of Treason (1947)
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