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.
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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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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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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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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