Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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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.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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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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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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