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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

Evelyn Waugh

For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Energy Mistake People Resident
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Work Worth
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
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, 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
To understand all is to forgive all.
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Deep Forgiveness One Liner Understand Wisdom
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Art Charm Death Existence Fear Greatness Kill Love Myself Touch Yourself
The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Argument Greatness Opinion People
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
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
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Argument Limitation Ourselves
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
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing

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