Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a … - Rose Macaulay

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Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.

Rose Macaulay

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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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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