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When we are not sure, we are alive.

Graham Greene

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
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
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
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
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
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
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself

When we are not sure, we are alive.

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