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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.

Graham Greene

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
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
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth

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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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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