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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.

Evelyn Waugh

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
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
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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove 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
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Believe Existence Fall Love Marriage Myself People
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself

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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