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I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

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one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.

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If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act...more

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At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything every disappointment every failure an...more

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In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Re...more

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Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passio...more

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If there is a God who uses us and makes his saints out of such material as we are, the devil too may have his ambitions: he may dream of training even...more

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You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.

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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

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I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.

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When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laught...more

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I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There ar...more

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Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked.T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew bundles of pound notes. 'O...more

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Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

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That was the worst period of all: it is my profession to imagine, to think in images: fifty times through the day, and immediately I woke during the n...more