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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.

Graham Greene

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
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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Love Myself Thinking
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
I 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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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Choice Moments Story
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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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response

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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