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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.

Evelyn Waugh

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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Children Destruction Family Father Myself See
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
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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
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
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
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
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
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

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