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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by…
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the…
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in…
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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
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I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of…
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