Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENEChampagne, 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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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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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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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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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.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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