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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Graham Greene

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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
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
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
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth

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