Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENEWe are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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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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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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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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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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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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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