God, what a life this is,” he said, “full of presciences th… - Rebecca West

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God, what a life this is,” he said, “full of presciences that don't do us any good, full of self-consciousness that tortures us by telling us just what sort of hole we’re in, but never how to get out of it.

Rebecca West

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Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer.

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Pen Names: Lynx

Birth Name: Cecily Isabel Fairfield

Alternative Names: West, Dame Rebecca • Dame Rebecca West • Cicely Fairchild • Cicily Isabel Andrews • Cicily Andrews • Cicely Isabel Fairfield • Cicily Isobel Fairfield • Cicily Isabel Fairfield • Cicily Fairfield Andrews • Mrs H. M. Andrews • Cicily Fairfield • Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield • Cicily Farifield

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But our grief was useless. Salt water, spilled on the ground, does not feed what grows there, but kills it.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. But it is also in terror, because those values are threatened, and it is not certain whether they will triumph in this world, and of course music is a missionary effort to colonise earth for imperialistic heaven.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is. — Quoted in Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

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