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.
GRAHAM GREENEHe was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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.
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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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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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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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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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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.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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