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

Graham Greene

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
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
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
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
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
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
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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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst

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