I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENEWe can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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