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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

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
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
To 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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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
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
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
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 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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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
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
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective

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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