Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENEEternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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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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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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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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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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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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