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

Graham Greene

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
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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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
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 say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
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
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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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Choice Moments Story
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
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
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
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
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality

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