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We forget very easily what gives us pain.

Graham Greene

Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
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
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENE

Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
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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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

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