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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Evelyn Waugh

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
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

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