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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.

Evelyn Waugh

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
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
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Books Feeling Open Thrill
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Growth Himself Old Young
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
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
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Hide Orphan Storm
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
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
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root 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
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

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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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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