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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.

Graham Greene

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
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 done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
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 value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
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.
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Choice Moments Story
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.

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