We forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENETo 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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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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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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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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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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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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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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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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