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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Graham Greene

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
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
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

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