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

Graham Greene

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
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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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
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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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
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
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
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
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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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth

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