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Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth recounted her experiences during the First World War and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Expression, Immature, Immaturity, Political, Politics, Usually

I don't think victory over death. . . is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.

Lived, Loving, Man, Men, Thinking, Victory

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

Forevermore, Lasts, May, Spring, Young

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

Break Up, Husband, Marriage, Nobody, Read, Reading

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

Golden, Honesty, People, Permanent, Sorrow

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession;
I am your friend, but never your possession.

Friend, Meek, Part, Possession, Profession

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

Children, Devotion, Open, Rewarding, Things

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

Mercy, Providence, Should, Understood

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

Authors, Eye, Poet, Prose, See, Written

Venice is all sea and sculpture.

Sculpture, Sea, Venice

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

Ability, Events, Humanity, Level, Wherever, World

The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.

Early, Giving, Lying, Rushing, Stream, Surface

If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.

Character, Discovers, Interesting, Learn, Make, People

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

Attitude, Largest, Lies, Lying, Men, Scope

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Alone, Children, Contemporaries, Friends, Parent, Parents

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

College, Scholastic, Scholastics, Secluded, Vegetation

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

Righteous, Righteousness, Self, Self Righteous

Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine value than external advantages in some other career where the impulse to make use of them remains weak or non-existent. The work that one enjoys is the greatest source of happiness and vitality in life.

Careers, Happiness, Life, Passion, Weak, Work

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer. . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.

Become, Ideas, Necessary, Order, Successful, Writer

I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.

Burnt, Coloured, Eye, Mean, Mere, War

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