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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.

Evelyn Waugh

Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Dignity Forest Myself Power Ruin Thinking
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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Lost Money Philosophy Player
Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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

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