Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENEAn autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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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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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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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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