As long as one suffers one lives.
GRAHAM GREENEI 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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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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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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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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