Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENEChampagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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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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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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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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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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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.
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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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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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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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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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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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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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