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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

Evelyn Waugh

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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Couple Love Person Relationship Trust Yourself
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
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
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
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’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Kind Myself Thinking Time Wickedness
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Demand Man Room
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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Advice Fingers Language Yourself

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