You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
GRAHAM GREENEReality 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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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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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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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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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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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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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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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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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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