We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENEBeauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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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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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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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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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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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 one suffers one lives.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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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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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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