Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
GRAHAM GREENEHuman nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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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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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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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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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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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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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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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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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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