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If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.
God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.
A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.
love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.
He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.
Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.
A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.
Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.
You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.
I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.