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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.

Graham Greene

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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
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
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
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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
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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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself

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