Rebecca West quote: Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of normal life dissolved to tears, ...

Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of normal life dissolved to tears, the chords of Beethoven sounded serenely.

~ Rebecca West ~

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