The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Rebecca WestThe [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.
Rebecca WestI find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
Rebecca WestAll our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
Rebecca West