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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.

Graham Greene

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
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
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
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence 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
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

Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.

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