Sybille Bedford Quotes

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The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

Sybille Bedford

A part, a large part, of travelling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.

Sybille Bedford

Public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

Sybille Bedford

Must power always be for destruction?... That has so far been largely the experience.

Sybille Bedford

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

Sybille Bedford

When one's young... everything is a rehearsal. To be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.

Sybille Bedford

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

Sybille Bedford

Sybille Bedford

Sybille Bedford

Born: March 16, 1911

Died: February 17, 2006 (aged 94)

Bio: Sybille Bedford was a German-born English writer. She was a writer of non-fiction and semi-autobiographical fiction books and a lesbian.

Known for:

A Legacy (1956)
A visit to Don Otavio (1953)
A favourite of the gods (1963)
Jigsaw (1989)
A compass error (1968)

Sybille Bedford on Wikipedia

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