Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENEIn human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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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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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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