Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, … - Rose Macaulay - Quotesmemo.com

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I am concerned that my children will grow up sheltered from the public. I am concerned that the children get to experience childhood and youth in their time without constant monitoring. It has been very important for both the Crown Prince and myself.

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Rose Macaulay

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

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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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The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

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Still I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. For I sent the bath towel to the wash this morning, and omitted to put out another. I have no towel.

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Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal. . . unless she's really attractive.

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Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind. . . To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.

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