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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

Evelyn Waugh

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Art Beautiful Discipline Experience Thinking Work
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Amusement Myself Personality Yourself
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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Easy Innocence Oneself Youth
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
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
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Forgiveness God Philosophy Religious Sin
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
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.
EVELYN WAUGH

Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset

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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