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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

Evelyn Waugh

News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
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
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Future Generation Happiness Himself Live World
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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Answer Desire Desperate Emotion Hate Identity Love Name Philosophy Yourself
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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
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
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
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
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

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