Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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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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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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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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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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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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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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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