Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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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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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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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