They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENEFriendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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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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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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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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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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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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