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.
GRAHAM GREENEYou cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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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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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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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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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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