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

Graham Greene

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Choice Moments Story
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories 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
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth

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