Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENEOur worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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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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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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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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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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