Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. - Rebecca West

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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

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About Rebecca West

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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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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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.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

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It was the same when they sat in his office, a stupendous apartment designed in that modernist style which represents the last attempt of bad taste to escape the criticisms of good taste.

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