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Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.
— Rebecca West The Fountain Overflows
Tags: relationships, love, friendship

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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
— Rebecca West
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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
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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?
— Rebecca West
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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
— Rebecca West
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
— Rebecca West
Tags: any, book, practice, god
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