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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?

Evelyn Waugh

Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
EVELYN WAUGH

Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Better Change Name Reason See Sound Start Stop Yourself
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Modern Remove Science
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness

Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?

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