Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“We possess nothing certainly except the past.”
— Evelyn Waugh, book Brideshead Revisited
Part 3, start of chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
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