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We possess nothing certainly except the past.

Evelyn Waugh

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
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Character Food Soft Warm
Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Change Happiness Hope Life Myself People
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
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
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
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
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Age Artist Flop Reaction Stand
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Blind Myself Road
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Happiness Intense Shoes Word
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious

We possess nothing certainly except the past.

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