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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

Graham Greene

There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
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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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
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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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World

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