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 GREENEI 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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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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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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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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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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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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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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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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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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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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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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