We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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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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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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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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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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