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

Graham Greene

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
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
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
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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
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
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’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
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

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