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.
GRAHAM GREENEMost things disappoint till you look deeper.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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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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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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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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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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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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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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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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