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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.

Graham Greene

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
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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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
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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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
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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Love Myself Thinking
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See

We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.

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