A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.Rebecca West
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.Rebecca West
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.Rebecca West
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.Rebecca West
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
There is a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.Rebecca West
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.Rebecca West
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.Rebecca West
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.Rebecca West
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.Rebecca West
