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.
GRAHAM GREENEMy two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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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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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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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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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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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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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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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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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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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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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