For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENEPeople who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Of 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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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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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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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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