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Innocence is a kind of insanity.

Graham Greene

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
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
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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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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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Love Myself Thinking
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
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself

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