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We possess nothing certainly except the past.

Evelyn Waugh

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
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Death Forget Name Oneself Vocabulary Word
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
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
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
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
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
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
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom

We possess nothing certainly except the past.

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