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Rebecca West Quote: “The word “idiot” comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.”

151. “The word “idiot” comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.”

152. “Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.”

153. “The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.”

154. “The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.”

155. “Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.”

156. “Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “It is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster.”

157. “It is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.”

158. “Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.”

159. “Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.”

160. “A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “It isn’t only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.”

161. “It isn’t only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “That taught me a lesson I’ve always found it useful to remember if I have to deal with difficult men. When they are hard, they are probably dealing with things they do not understand. If one brings them back to what is familiar to them, they become soft.”

162. “That taught me a lesson I’ve always found it useful to remember if I have to deal with difficult men. When they are hard, they are probably dealing with things they do not understand. If one brings them back to what is familiar to them, they become soft.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.”

163. “God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “Her outflung hand turned over in the air. The gesture it described was infinitesimal, but it made Corrie draw in his breath and for the first time consider the possibility that perhaps the final emotion he might feel for his wife was hate. -Life Sentence.”

164. “Her outflung hand turned over in the air. The gesture it described was infinitesimal, but it made Corrie draw in his breath and for the first time consider the possibility that perhaps the final emotion he might feel for his wife was hate. -Life Sentence.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.”

165. “Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.”

166. “But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.”

167. “The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.”

168. “If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “I’ve never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?”

169. “I’ve never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?”

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Rebecca West Quote: “I prayed and read the Bible, but I couldn’t get any help. You don’t notice how little there is in the Bible really till you go to it for help.”

170. “I prayed and read the Bible, but I couldn’t get any help. You don’t notice how little there is in the Bible really till you go to it for help.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “I find that this always happens when I try to interrupt Slavs who are quarreling. They draw all the energy out of the air by the passion of their debate, so that anything outside its orbit can only flutter trivially.”

171. “I find that this always happens when I try to interrupt Slavs who are quarreling. They draw all the energy out of the air by the passion of their debate, so that anything outside its orbit can only flutter trivially.”

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Rebecca West Quote: “That shows how impossible it is to be a woman. One’s whole life depends on one’s looks but one mayn’t speak of one’s own beauty.”

172. “That shows how impossible it is to be a woman. One’s whole life depends on one’s looks but one mayn’t speak of one’s own beauty.”

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