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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. – Rebecca West

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Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. – Rebecca West

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Trust
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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. – Rebecca West

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Experience
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A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. – Rebecca West

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. – Voltaire

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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Knowledge

If I have enough ego to say Im a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work. – Peter Fonda

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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. – Henry Miller

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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my fathers head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. – Alice Walker

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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. – Samuel Johnson

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