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

Graham Greene

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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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
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
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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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
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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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
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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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
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

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