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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

I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Books Novel Phone Wife Writing
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
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Action Alone Determination Worth Yourself
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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Care Media News Reading
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
I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Myself Voice Word
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Live Myself Popular Reading Truth Wrong
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Exception See Woman Youth
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
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Happiness Politics Science
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Character Let Go Mischief Need Yourself
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird
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
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Meaning Vulgar Word
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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Adult Best Boredom Education Hope Language Life Patience Perfection Remember Study Yourself
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
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
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Father Happiness Relationship Son
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
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
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 think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Excuse Image Myself Stupidity Thinking Worship
O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Character God Goodness One Liner
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
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Appearance Enough Heaven Human Invention Mindset
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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Education Lose 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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