Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENEIt 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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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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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All good novelists have bad memories.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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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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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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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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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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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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