Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Rebecca WestTags: war military-science
I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.
Rebecca WestTags: history yugoslavia
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca WestThe trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Rebecca WestTags: aphorism
It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.
Rebecca WestEmbraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there needs to be no straining of the eyes, no stretching forth of the hands, no pressing of the lips, because theirs is such a union that they are no longer aware of the division of their flesh.
Rebecca WestYou must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
Rebecca WestTags: life music extraordinary
She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.
Rebecca Westthe world had gone too far in its enthusiasm for moderation and the thing had to be stopped
Rebecca Westshe repaid us by giving life the quality that but for her was only to be found in music
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