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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.

Graham Greene

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
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
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
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
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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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
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
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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