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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Evelyn Waugh

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
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious
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
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality 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
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
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
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
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
It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Civilization Curiosity Paradise Promise Taste
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
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
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
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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
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
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Country Design Expectation Generosity Happiness Listening People Secret Talk
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
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
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
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word

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