Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
GRAHAM GREENEIt’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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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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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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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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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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