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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
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
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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Better Change Name Reason See Sound Start Stop Yourself
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
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
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
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

One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

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