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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Graham Greene

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
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.
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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
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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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

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