Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.

Rebecca West's Popular Quotes

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.

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Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

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No great thing happens suddenly.

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Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the f…

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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

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You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

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The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story abou…

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

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Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

- Rebecca West