Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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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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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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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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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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