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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

Graham Greene

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
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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
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
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
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
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
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save

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