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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

Graham Greene

Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
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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Question Talent Time Willing Work
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
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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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
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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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

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