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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

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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Love Myself Thinking
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
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
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
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
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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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

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