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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Graham Greene

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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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
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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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
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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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

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