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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

Evelyn Waugh

There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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Education Lose Yourself
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
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
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value

I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

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