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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. – Rebecca West

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I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. – Rebecca West

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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. – Rebecca West

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Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. – Rebecca West

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