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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

Evelyn Waugh

If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Alive Himself Strength Struggle War
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Advice Fingers Language Yourself
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious

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