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.
GRAHAM GREENEWriting 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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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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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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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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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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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