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.
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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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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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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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