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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.

Graham Greene

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
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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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
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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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote

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