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.
GRAHAM GREENEPolitics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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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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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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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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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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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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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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