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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

Graham Greene

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
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
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
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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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
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
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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
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
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
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…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself

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