Danh ngôn của Rebecca West (Sứ mệnh: 5)

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
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.
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.