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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

Graham Greene

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
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
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Choice Moments Story
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
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
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
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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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself

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