Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
GRAHAM GREENEHer 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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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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