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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Graham Greene

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
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
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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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
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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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
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
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension

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