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49 quotes
British writer, playwright and literary critic (1904–1991)
“Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.”
"You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God."
on Faith
"Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time."
on Time
"In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."
on Relationships
"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."
on Philosophy
"Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline."
on Success
"No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness."
"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
on Trust
"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."
on Childhood
"Failure too is a form of death."
on Failure
"No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness."
"They killed him because he was too innocent to live."
on Life
"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
on Freedom
"One can't love humanity. One can only love people."
on Love
"Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men"
"There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared."
"Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears."
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."
"Innocence is a kind of insanity"
"She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it."
on Happiness
"Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something."
