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

Graham Greene

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
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
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
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
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
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
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
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
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
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

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

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