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- Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
- A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth…
- Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
- I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.
- 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…
- One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain…
- It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.
- 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…
- There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
- Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no…
- What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it…
- How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew…
- Death was far more certain than God.
- 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…
- I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
- They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A…
- They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few…
- I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
- The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.
- You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?
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