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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

Graham Greene

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
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
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
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
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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
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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself

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