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

Evelyn Waugh

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
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
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
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
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
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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Lost Money Philosophy Player
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Feeling Future Myself Past Present Room Side

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