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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Quentin Crisp

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Being Consume Deliberate Desire Hand Human Most Other Person Plant Some
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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Appalling Existence Glow Opinion Other Ourselves People Purpose Reconcile Thing Think
Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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Able Being Decide Fashion Perpetuate Style Way
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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At All Housework Need To Do
In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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Actor Country Every Evry Flat Inattentive Possibly Potential Stage Surface Unemoloy Waiter
Vice is its own reward.
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Own Reward Vice
Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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Children Dry Land Made Mother Out Realize Return Soon Step Trouble Womb
To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Blessing Live Miss Opportunity Pass Today Tomorrow
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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Country Do Expect Happiness Impression Live Not Time
I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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Involvement Limit Live Minimum People Pleasanity Recommend Scant
In England, nobody’s your friend.
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Country Friend Nobisy One Liner Your
Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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Abatement Been Enemy Hostility Over Signify Through Won
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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Become Cruelty Down Extreme Manliness Nature Pass Thing
To lose is not always failure.
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Always Failure Lose
The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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Interior Involve Journey Search Style
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Absolute Appear Get Manner Swine Want Way

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