In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENEEternity 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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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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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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