No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.
— Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
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