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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Graham Greene

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
It’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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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
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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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint

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