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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
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
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare 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
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People

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