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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Graham Greene

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
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
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
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
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
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, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return

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