I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.
Rebecca WestI don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.
Rebecca WestThose who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.
Rebecca WestI always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.
Rebecca West