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Hate is a lack of imagination.

Graham Greene

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
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
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
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
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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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
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
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
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.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
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
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike

Hate is a lack of imagination.

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