Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENEBeauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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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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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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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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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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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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