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Hate is a lack of imagination.

Graham Greene

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 can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
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.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
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
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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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
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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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
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

Hate is a lack of imagination.

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