There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENETo 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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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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.
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I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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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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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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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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