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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 Greene

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
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. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
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
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENE

Company Desire End

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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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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