We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENEThere is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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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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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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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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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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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