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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Graham Greene

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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
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
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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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
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
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
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
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
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 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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
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 human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth

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