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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.

Graham Greene

We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
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
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
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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Existence God Hate Yourself
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
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.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
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
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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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production

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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