In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENEOf two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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 impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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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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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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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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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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