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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

Graham Greene

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
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
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
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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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
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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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
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

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

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