Citas de Rose Macaulay

• Es un delirio común creer que se mejoran las cosas hablando de ellas.

  Rose Macaulay

  Philosophy, Women, Talking

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• Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

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  Beautiful, Agony, Amusing

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• Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

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  Passion, Law, Conflict

  Rose Macaulay, Constance Babington Smith (2011). “Letters to a Friend”, p.173, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

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  Life, Stress, House

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined.

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  Lying, Joy, Selfishness

  "The Towers of Trebizond". Book by Rose Macaulay, 1956.

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• To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

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  Thinking, Empty Mind, Prejudice

  Rose Macaulay (1922). “Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings”

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• The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

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  Travel, Trouble

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.5, A&C Black

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• The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

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  Lust, Impulse, Primitive

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

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  Tangled, Safe, Speak

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• Conocemos los defectos, las virtudes, las catástrofes, las mortificaciones, los triunfos, las rivalidades, los deseos y cuánto tiempo podemos colgar cada uno de nuestras manos a una barra. Nos hemos agrupado bajo códigos de manada y leyes tribales.

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  Sister, Brother, Sibling

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• It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.

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  Home, Tired, Touching

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• As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

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  Fit, Should, Understood

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• News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

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  Food, Cooking, Culture

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

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  Believe, Atheism, Strange

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1923). “Mystery at Geneva”

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• It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

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  Mundo

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.), John Hamilton Cowper Johnson (1963). “Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958”

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• Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.

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  Time, Flower, Past

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Told by an Idiot”, p.66, A&C Black

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• To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

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  Ambition, Lunch, Goal

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1923). “Mystery at Geneva”

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• Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

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  Time, Morning, Book

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• ¡Un baño caliente! Qué exquisito placer vespertino, qué lujoso, fervoroso y flagrante consuelo para los rigores, las austeridades, las renuncias del día.

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  Freedom, Hot, Austerity

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.101, A&C Black

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• How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.

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  Selfish, Compassion, Giving

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• The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised, is half-mystical in basis. The intoxication, at once so heady and so devout, is not the romantic melancholy engendered by broken towers and mouldered stones; it is the soaring of the imagination into the high empyrean where huge episodes are tangled with myths and dreams; it is the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs.

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  Sueño, Hombres, Pasado

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.), Roloff Beny, Constance Babington Smith (1977). “Roloff Beny interprets in photographs Pleasure of ruins”

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• Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.

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  Fuerte, Odio, Guerra

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1940). “And No Man's Wit”

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• Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.

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  Struggle, Fall, Long

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• Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

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  Strange, Accepted, Strangeness

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• One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

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  Travel, Feels, Countrymen

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