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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.

Graham Greene

It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.

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