In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENEEternity 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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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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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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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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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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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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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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