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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.

Graham Greene

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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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
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
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
GRAHAM GREENE

Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue

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