Ta näis sõnatult ütlevat: "Vaadake mind. Ma olen oma panuse andnud. Ma olen kaunis. See minu ilu on midagi täiesti ebatavalist. Ma olen loodud inimeste rõõmuks. Aga mis ma ise sellest saan? Kus on minu tasu?"
See oligi viimase kümne aasta peamine muutus; ja see tegelikult oligi tema tasu - see teda igavesti saatev nõiduslik nukrus, mis läks otse südamesse ja võttis sõnad suust; see andis tema ilule täiuse.

Evelyn Waugh

Tags: ilu nukrus



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Tead, kui ma vaatan seda oma suurt kinniseotud jalga, siis ma ei saa lahti tundest, et mul on podagra, ja see tekitab hirmsat �šampuseisu.

Evelyn Waugh

Tags: alkohol joomine



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I've usually found every Catholic family has one lapsed member, and it's often the nicest.

Evelyn Waugh


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Here my last love had died.

Evelyn Waugh

Tags: love war



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I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.

Evelyn Waugh

Tags: blessings martyrdom self-denial aesthetism



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Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.

Evelyn Waugh

Tags: nostalgia introspection



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My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.

Evelyn Waugh

Tags: expectations potential fathers-and-sons



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There was a change in both of us. We had lost a sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year.

Evelyn Waugh

Tags: novelty sophomoric



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If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.

Evelyn Waugh

Tags: identity marriage compromise



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I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.

Evelyn Waugh

Tags: fashion excellence tradition timelessness fads



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