The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENEIt 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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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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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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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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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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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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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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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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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.
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