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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

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
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
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Gift Himself Intuition Rich Wisdom
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
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

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