When we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENEPity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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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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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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