So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENEPolitics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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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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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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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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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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