It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENEHuman nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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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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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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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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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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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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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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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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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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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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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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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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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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