Rose Macaulay - The Towers of Trebizond (1956)

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Her children are either deceased, or following some profession abroad. I too follow professions, but at some distance behind, and seldom catch up with them.

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The position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

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"Take my camel, dear," said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.

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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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Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole, never feel quite the same to one another again, and it is nobody's fault, as one knows if one listens to the stories of both, though it seems to be some people's fault more than others.

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Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

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For that is what 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 this meanness and this selfishness and this lying flow love and joy and peace, beyond anything that can be imagined.

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Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

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