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

Graham Greene

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
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
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
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
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
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
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
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
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
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
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
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World

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