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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

There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
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
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
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
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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
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
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth

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