Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEInnocence is a kind of insanity.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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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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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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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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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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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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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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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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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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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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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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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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