Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
GRAHAM GREENEHe was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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