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

Graham Greene

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
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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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
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
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself

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