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.
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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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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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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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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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Her 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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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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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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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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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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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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