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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.

Graham Greene

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
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
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
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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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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
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
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
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
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

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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