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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

Graham Greene

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 GREENE

Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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
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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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
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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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
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
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENE

Better Lying Seek Truth
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENE

Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
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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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
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
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

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