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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Evelyn Waugh

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Happiness Myself Sleep Togetherness
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
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
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
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art Crime Design Desire Expression
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Human Love Oneself Relationship Root Wisdom
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
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Evil Greatness Oneself World
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Education Ignorance Modern Trouble Yourself
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
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
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
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Acceptance Civilization Possible Time
I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Comfortable Deaf Myself Quite
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Division People Sex Weird

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