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Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

There is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

Far better that false hope should lull you,
Than that sheer blackness yawn at you

Growing numbers of people, in their work, come into contact with a diminishing fragment of reality; as their world shrinks, so does their language.

Paradise is, above all, the state in which the soul feels clean.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.