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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

Graham Greene

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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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Choice Moments Story
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
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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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
It 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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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
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
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

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

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