It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. - Rebecca West

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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

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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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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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Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there needs to be no straining of the eyes, no stretching forth of the hands, no pressing of the lips, because theirs is such a union that they are no longer aware of the division of their flesh.

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.

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