We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENEFriendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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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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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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