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

Graham Greene

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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Choice Moments Story
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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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
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
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible

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

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