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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

Graham Greene

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
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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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
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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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
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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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
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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