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Rebecca West Quotes

Rebecca West quotes about die

Irish Author December 21, 1892 – March 15, 1983

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Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations. Rebecca West
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe neet 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. Rebecca West
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. Rebecca West
Rebecca West quote: "There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the..."
There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die. Rebecca West

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