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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

Graham Greene

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself

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