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.
GRAHAM GREENEHe was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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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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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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