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We forget very easily what gives us pain.

Graham Greene

Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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
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
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

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