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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.

Graham Greene

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
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
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
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
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
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible

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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