Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
GRAHAM GREENEDeath 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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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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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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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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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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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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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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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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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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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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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