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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horro

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. – Evelyn Waugh

Other quotes by Evelyn Waugh

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – Evelyn Waugh

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Paradise, Utopia
Author
Evelyn Waugh
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. – Evelyn Waugh

Category:
Wisdom
Author
Evelyn Waugh
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Other Quotes from
Philosophical
category

Yearning for sun and starlight, roses and winter, together. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

Category:
Philosophical

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault

Category:
Philosophical

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Philosophical

We become aware of the void as we fill it. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Category:
Philosophical

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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when Im on the set, but I dont take myself seriously as an actor. – Henry Rollins

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movies

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe. – Norman Vincent Peale

Category:
Success

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. – Walter Benjamin

Category:
Absence

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. – Felix Adler

Category:
Heroes/Heroism