Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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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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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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We 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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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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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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