we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as mu… - Rebecca West

I am for the legal government of Republican Spain against Franco, since Spain herself, at a properly conducted election, chose that Government and rejected the party which now supports Franco. I am also against Fascism; the reforms of Diocletian were a work of genius and made many people temporarily happy, but failed in the end and added greatly to human misery. I see no reason why this inferior modern copy of them should succeed.

She had treated her life as a room that had to be completely refurnished.

The moment ached, as if music were being played somewhere on an instrument whose strings had some connexion with her heart.