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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.

Graham Greene

We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
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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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
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
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
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
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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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
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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Choice Moments Story
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
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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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection

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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