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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

Graham Greene

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
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
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
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
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
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
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word

Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

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