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Category: Evelyn Waugh

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Bored, Virtue, Punctuality

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.

So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.

homosexuality, irony, lovers, minimalism

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.

compromise, identity, marriage

He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food… of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and dullness of buns… He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods… endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavor with flavor from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of brandy.

Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It’s supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.

god, hate, love

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

culture, desperation, input

No one is ever holy without suffering.

holy, suffering

Do you want to change?” “It’s the only evidence of life.

accommodation, adaptation, change, growth, stagnation

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one’s life…

travel, writing-advice, writing-inspiration