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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

Graham Greene

God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy 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
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever 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
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
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
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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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
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

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