She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
GRAHAM GREENEWould the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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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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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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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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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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