You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

—Rebecca West

About Rebecca West

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Dame Cecily Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph...

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There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

—Rebecca West

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

—Rebecca West

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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

—Rebecca West

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

—Rebecca West

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Desire creates the power.

—Rebecca West

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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

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I had learnt to seek intensity—more of life, a concentrated sense of life.

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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

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