It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
GRAHAM GREENEThey are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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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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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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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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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Writing 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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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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