Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENEI hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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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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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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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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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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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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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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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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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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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