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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

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
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
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
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
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself

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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