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Rose Macaulay Quotes

Rose Macaulay quotes about life

English Novelist August 1, 1881 – October 30, 1958

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when the years have all passed, there will gape the uncomfortable and unpredictable dark void of death, and into this I shall at last fall headlong, down and down and down, and the prospect of that fall, that uprooting, that rending apart of body and spirit, that taking off into so blank an unknown, drowns me in mortal fear and mortal grief. After all, life, for all its agonies of despair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing, full of liking and of... Rose Macaulay
Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again. Rose Macaulay
The superior thing, in this as in other departments of life, was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual...Mystery at Geneva Rose Macaulay
Rose Macaulay quote: "At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a..."
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. Rose Macaulay

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