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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

Evelyn Waugh

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
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Hold Parents Possible Son Yourself
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Himself Man Travel
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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Education Lose Yourself

It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

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