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When we are not sure, we are alive.

Graham Greene

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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
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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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
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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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
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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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
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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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
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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Love Myself Thinking

When we are not sure, we are alive.

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