Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENE
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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 impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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