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To understand all is to forgive all.

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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
I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
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
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
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom

To understand all is to forgive all.

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