Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENEAgainst the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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