Famous Dame Rebecca West Quotations

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"Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology."
by Dame Rebecca West
"If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed a good idea at the time.'"
by Dame Rebecca West
"Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen."
by Dame Rebecca West


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