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

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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
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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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
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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Love Myself Thinking
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
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
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
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
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
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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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing

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