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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

Evelyn Waugh

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
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
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
EVELYN WAUGH

Himself Man Travel
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
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
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
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
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
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
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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
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

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