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We forget very easily what gives us pain.

Graham Greene

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
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
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
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
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
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
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
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

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