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I hated her because I wished to think she didn't love me: I wanted to get her out of my system. What grievance, I wonder now, had I got against her, whether she loved me or not? She had been loyal to me for nearly a year, she had given me a great deal of pleasure, she had put up with my moods, and what had I given her in return apart from the momentary pleasure? I had come into this affair with my eyes open, knowing that one day this must e..
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He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?
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medicine
méxico
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Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God -- a being capable of understanding. Perhaps if I wanted to be understood or to understand I would bam-boozle myself into belief, but I am a reporter; God exists only for leader-writers.
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understanding
relationships
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Everything had seemed possibile. One could laugh at daydreams, but so long as you had the capacity to daydream, there was a chance that you might develop some of the qualities which you dreamed. It was like the religious discipline: words however emptily repeated can in time for a habit, a kind of unnoticed sediment at the bottom of the mind - until one day to you own surprise you find yourself acting on the belief you thought you didn't be..
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He went upstairs and opened the telegram; it was addressed to a department in the British Consulate, and the figures which followed had an ugly look like the lottery tickets that remained unsold on the last day of a draw. There was 2674 and then a string of five-figure numerals: 42811 79145 72312 59200 80947 62533 10605 and so on. It was his first telegram and he noticed that it was addressed from London. He was not even certain (so long ag..
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decoding
spy
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Isos e sexoualike epaphe na einai kai e kairia dokime. An katapheroume na zesoume khoris auten olo eusplakhnia gi' autous pou agapame ki olo sumpatheia gi' autous pou ekhoume prodosei, tote de khreiazetai n' anesukhoume gia to kalo kai to kako pou sunuparkhoun mesa mas. Omos an aphesoume kai mas kuriarkhesei e zeleia, e duspustia, e skleroteta, e ekdiketikoteta kai e antapodose, tote ekhoume apotukhei kai to lathos mas tha 'nai aute e idia ..
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I have never met a simple man. Not even in the confessional, though I used to sit there for hours on end. Man was not created simple. When I was a young priest, I used to try to unravel what motives a man or woman had, what temptations and self-delusions. But I soon learned to give all that up, because there was never a straight answer. No one was simple enough for me to understand. In the end I would just say, 'Three Our Fathers, Three Hai..
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As they pedalled us down the long suburban road to the Chinese town a line of French armoured cars went by, each with its jutting gun and silent officer motionless like a figurehead under the stars and the black, smooth, concave sky--trouble again probably with a private army, the Binh Xuyen, who ran the Grand Monde and the gambling halls of Cholon. This was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were t..
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old-world
vietnam
europe
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Eimaste anoetoi otan agapame. Etrema ste skepse mepos te khaso. Pistepsa oti ten eida na allazei - den xero an ontos allaze, pantos mou etan adunaton pia na antexo ten abebaioteta. Etrexa pros to telos, san ton deilo pou trekhei pros ton ekhthro kai pairnei metallio. Ethela na xeperaso ton thanato.
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When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity - that was a quality God's image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination. He
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I like to change my clothes as little as possible. I suppose some people would say the same of my ideas, the bank had taught me to be wary of whims.
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From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it.
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Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever. I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the daily possibility of love dying.
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Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the daily possibility of love dying. The nightmare of a future of boredom and indifference would lift. I could ..
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war
love
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There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic,too,and what he had experienced was vacancy-a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all. He knew
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Segura) "...surely you realise there are people who expect to be tortured and others who would be outraged by the idea. One never tortures except by a kind of mutual agreement. ... Dr Hasselbacher does not belong to the torturable class." (Wormold) "Who does?" (Segura) "The poor in my own country, in any Latin American country. The poor of Central Europe and the Orient. Of course in your welfare states you have no poor, so you are untortura..
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The Captain turned away from the mirror and said, 'Thank God, I'm not in danger of prison here. I'm only in danger of death.
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So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.
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In the strict sense I would not call him a writer at all." (...) Crabbin said, "He was just a popular entertainer." "Why the hell not?" Martins said fiercely. "Oh well, I merely meant..." "What was Shakespeare?"
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He had no accomplice except the credulity of other men.
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Dear Mr Wormold, surely you realize there are people who expect to be tortured and others who would be outraged by the idea. One never tortures except by a kind of mutual agreement.
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I was a correspondent: I thought in headlines.
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Human love can be only a pale reflection of the emotion that God must feel for what He has created
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feelings
human
god
love
emotions
creation
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He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy.
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sex
men
women
gender-relationships
men-and-women
gender
morals
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What's the good? he'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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She was the hiss of steam, the clink of a cup, she was a certain hour of the night and the promise of rest.
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There was no scene, no tears, just thought -- the long private thought of somebody who has to alter a whole course of life.
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You think you are so bad,' she said, 'but it was only because you couldn't bear the pain. But "they" can bear pain - other people's pain - endlessly. They are the people who don't care."
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She always harboured my criticism: it was only praise that slid from her like the snow.
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You have a sense of humour. I am in favor of jokes. They have political value. Jokes are a release for the cowardly and the impotent.
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There are men whom one has an irresistible desire to tease: men whose virtues one doesn't share.
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Graham Greene |
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One can't always be wise, can one, in a world like this?
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for aren't lovers nearly always innocent? They have committed no crime, they are certain in their own minds that they have done no wrong, 'as long as no one but myself is hurt', the old tag is ready on their lips, and love, of course, excuses everything--so they believe, and so I used to believe in the days when I loved.
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She had often disconcerted me by the truth. In the days when we were in love, I would try to get her to say more than the truth--that our affair would never end, that one day we should marry. I wouldn't have believed her, but I would have liked to hear the words on her tongue, perhaps only to give me the satisfaction of rejecting them myself. But she never played that game of make-believe, and then suddenly, unexpectedly, she would shatter ..
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There were occasions when Shakespeare was a very bad writer indeed. You can see how often in books of quotations. People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.
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graham-greene
travels-with-my-aunt
quotes
william-shakespeare
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As one grows old I think one becomes more attached to family things- to houses and graves.
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family
graham-greene
travels-with-my-aunt
nostalgia
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Once for five minutes seven years ago they had been lovers--if you could give that name to a relationship in which she had never used his baptismal name: to her it was just an incident, a scratch which heals completely in the healthy flesh: she was even proud of having been the priest's woman. He alone carried a wound, as though a whole world had died.
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Graham Greene |
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As long as there is a Church, there will be little Torquemadas
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Graham Greene |
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With goodness one can feel secure; why wasn't I satisfied with goodness, why did I always ask her the wrong questions?
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malnutrition is much safer for the rich than starvation. Starvation makes a man desperate. Malnutrition makes him too tired to raise a fist. The Americans understand that well - the aid they give us makes just that amount of difference. Our people do not starve - they wilt.
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When you're not a good man yourself you respect a good man. Now I'd prefer to die with a good man around. A good man teaches a lot of nonsense and a bad man teaches truth [...] I'm not the one to teach the boy nonsense.
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Graham Greene |
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Terror was always just behind her shoulder: she was wasted by the effort of not turning round.
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It seemed odd that a man's smell should cling in the folds of a curtain so long after the man himself had become dead matter, a gas, a decay.
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Graham Greene |
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Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises, as complicated as the alignments at Waterloo, thought out on a brass bedstead among the crumbs of sausage roll. [p107]
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life
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