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Rebecca West

"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."

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"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

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"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."
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"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
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"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
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"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"
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"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
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"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."
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"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."
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"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
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"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
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"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide."
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