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

Evelyn Waugh

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
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Exception One Liner Past Possession
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Bury Happiness Misery Myself Old Place Precious Remember Ugly
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Conversation Goodness Missing Yourself
You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Evil Kill Person Remove Yourself
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
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
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
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
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Best Book Novel Travel Worst
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Art Artist Design Strike Value
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
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

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