It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
GRAHAM GREENEI 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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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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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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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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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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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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