There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENEWe are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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An 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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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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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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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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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.
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