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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

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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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 prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression

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