Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENEWriting 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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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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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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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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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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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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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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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