A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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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.
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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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All good novelists have bad memories.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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