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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Graham Greene

One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
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
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
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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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
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
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
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
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

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