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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

Graham Greene

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
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
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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
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
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
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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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing

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