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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

Evelyn Waugh

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Character Food Soft Warm
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
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

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