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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

Graham Greene

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
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
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful

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