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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

Graham Greene

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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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
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
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
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
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
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price

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